The Kindness Person: A Conversation with George Saunders
...kindness, it turns out, is hard — it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, everything.
George Saunders • “Failures of Kindness”
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It’s a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I’d say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder.
George Saunders • “Failures of Kindness”
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Kindness means living a life filled with care, warmth, empathy, and concern for others.
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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
George Saunders • “Failures of Kindness”
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George Saunders's Advice to Graduates
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And look at that: the more I know about her, the less inclined I feel to pass a too-harsh or premature judgment. Some essential mercy in me has been switched on.
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Saunders talked about how when he was a child, a young girl was teased at his school and, although he didn’t tease her and even defended her a little, he still thought about it. He said: So here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindn
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