You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
My religion is kindness.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.
We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive.
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
Compassion is not a virtue – it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have – it’s something we choose to practice.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.
You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
God bless us, every one!
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.