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And then there is the kindness of dignity. Of giving someone the benefit of the doubt. The kindness of seeing someone for the person that they are and can become, and the realization that everyone, including me and you, has a noise in our heads, a story to be told, fear to be danced with and dreams to be realized.
Seth Godin • Three types of kindness
Dr. Brené Brown, whom I mentioned in the discussion about vulnerability, encourages readers of her book Daring Greatly to make the shift to believing that everyone is doing the best they can with the tools they have. That ultimately it isn’t about whether they are or aren’t but about how simply believing that and approaching every encounter from
... See moreLee Hartley Carter • Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter
My humanity is bound in yours.
A person is a person through other persons.
-Desmond Tutu
He would sit down once or twice a year over a good meal and a nice glass of wine and ask himself, "What would be fun and exciting to make my life about over the next year?"He would then take as long as he wanted to write down his ideas until he had a list that totally inspired him. As the year unfolded, he would check in with his "goals" every now
... See moreMichael Neill • You Can Have What You Want: Proven Strategies for Inner and Outer Success
Be Kind
It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.