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Mon 24 Jul 2023

Peace

Posted by PJ under kindness, peace, quote of the day, silence
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Random quote of the day:

“Grant yourself a moment of peace,
and you will understand
how foolishly you have scurried about
Learn to be silent,
and you will notice that
you have talked too much.
Be kind,
and you will realize that
your judgement of others was too severe.”

—Ancient Chinese Proverb

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Tue 23 May 2023

History

Posted by PJ under history, humility, kindness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“[History has taught me] kindness: we exist because many before us have survived hardship and have chosen to share their space, resources and stories. And humility as a scholar: we very rarely discover anything but reinterpret and add to palimpsests.”

—Prof. Olivette Otele, History Today, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018

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Tue 25 Apr 2023

Lost

Posted by PJ under grief, kindness, knowing, lost and found, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.

—Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak, November 8, 1903

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Tue 3 Jul 2018

Kindness

Posted by PJ under kindness, quote of the day, religion
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Random quote of the day:

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

—Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness and Compassion

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Mon 13 Nov 2017

Kindly do

Posted by PJ under kindness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”

—Mencius, The Meng-Tzu (tr. James Legge)

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Fri 21 Apr 2017

Be kind

Posted by PJ under kindness, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”

—Robert Brault, Round Up the Usual Subjects

 

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Mon 16 Nov 2015

Carrying favor

Posted by PJ under kindness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

—Benjamin Franklin, old maxim quoted in The Autobiography

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Wed 27 Mar 2013

Deep

Posted by PJ under kindness, poetry, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
You must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

—Naomi Shahib Nye, “Kindness”

 

You can read the whole poem here.

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Mon 26 Jul 2010

Kind

Posted by PJ under kindness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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