Long Lived Kindness

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. ~Robert Brault

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia


The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato


The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth


Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown


Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown


A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. Spurgeon

I love kindness. It's that "thing" in the eyes of Christ that I see first. It's the compassion... that covers and deeply cares and holds me here. I am love-locked. I will stay here forever.

And then I go and marry Kindness seven amazing years ago...and I get to live with a man who writes stuff like this...with his living...



A healthy perspective is that life is a together-journey. That as we love others our own self-worth is nurtured. That as we comfort someone in need our own needs are tended. So today, how can we consider someone else before ourselves and be a spark in their life that encourages them to live boldly? What specific thing can you do for that one person today that will water the seed of their true potential and remind them that an eternal, benevolent Being is on their side making all things possible and dazzling? -William Todd Warren

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. - Rusty Berkus