Random Acts of Kindness
Je viens de lire ce livre, "Random Acts of Kindness" par Conari Press. Heh. Je suis tellement inspiré par quelques entrées que j'ai décidé de faire une communauté! C'est à livre_jaune. Heh. Parce que j'ai donné un livre vert à Zyfie pour son anniversaire, pour que il peuve noter ses souvenirs heureux, et pour moi, mon couleur est le jaune! (= Je ne sais pas si personne veuille partager dans cette communauté mais je l'aimerais bien. *_*
I've just read this book, "Random Acts of Kindness" by the Conari Press. Heh. I was so inspired by some entries that I've decided to start a community! It's at livre_jaune. Heh. Cuz I gave a green book to Zyfie for his birthday, so that he can record his happy memories, and for me, my colour is yellow! (= I'm not sure if any one will share in this community, but I'll like it very much if you would. *_*
"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
- William Penn
"When you give from your heart, it's not to get anything back. There is no owing or owed. You just give because you want to give. When you give like this, it fills you up. It can't empty you."
- (adapted) Grandmother of Dawna Markova
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
- The Dalai Lama
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
- Marcus Aurelius
"What good will it do you to think, 'Oh, I have done evil, I have made many mistakes?' It requires no ghost to tell us that. Bring in the light, and the evil goes out in a moment."
- Vivekananda
"Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest."
- Henry Van Dyke
"What you deny to others will be denied toyou, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in."
- Thaddeus Golas
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
- Albert Einstein
"If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt.... It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics."
- Gurdjieff
"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
- Teilhard de Chardin
"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will."
- Ecclesiastes
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."
- Kahil Gibran
"When I was in college, I worked part-time at a sporting goods store. There was a kid who would come by two or three times a week to visit with this baseball mitt that he wanted to buy. My manager and I would joke about him not only because he was so dedicated and persistent, but also because he had picked the best and most expensive mitt in the shop to get obsessed about.
This went on for months. The kid would come in, and you could tell he was so relieved that the mitt was still there. He would put it on, pound his fist into the pocket a couple of times, and then very carefully put it back on the shelf and leave. Finally, one day he came in with a shoebox and a smile about eight miles wide and announced that he wanted to buy the mitt. So the manager brought the mitt over to the cash register while the kid counted out a shoe box worth of nickels, quarters, and dimes. His stash came to exactly $19.98. The mitt cost $79.98, not including tax. My manager looked at the price tag, and sure enough the 7 was a little smudged, enough that a desperately hopeful seven-year-old could imagine it to be a 1. Then he looked at me, smiled, and very carefully recounted. 'Yep, exactly $19.98.' Wrapping up the mitt, he gave it to the boy."
"May it be, oh Lord,
That I seek not so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
Because it is in giving oneself that one receives; it is in forgetting oneself that one is found; it is in pardoning that one obtains pardon."
- St Francis of Assisi
"I had just graduated from college and had gone back to the town I grew up in to visit friends. My parents had sold the family home a few years back and moved out of state so I also took the opportunity to drive by the old house just to see it. Out n the front yard, perched in 'my' giant oak tree, was a boy about ten years old. I stopped the car, went over to introduce myself, and told the boy that when I was his age I practically lived in that tree. He thought that was really funny because he said his mother was always telling people that he lives in that tree.
While we were standing there talking, laughing, and feeling very good about our shared tree, a car drove up to the curb right in front of us. A middle-aged man got out of the driver's side, came around to the passenger side, and helped a very frail-looking man out of the car. I guess we were both staring, but the old man just walked up the tree, patted it on the side, looked at us, and said, 'I planted this tree sixty years ago when there was nothing here but fields. I still like to come visit it now and then.' Then he turned around, got back into the car, and drove away. We were both so shocked we didn't say a word until after the old man had left. Then the boy just looked at me and said, 'Wow'. "
"Man should not consider his material posessions his own, but common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
- St Thomas Aquinas
"Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love... kindness is goodwill, kindness says 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God."
- Randolph Ray
"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
- Buddha
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
- Anne Frank
I've just read this book, "Random Acts of Kindness" by the Conari Press. Heh. I was so inspired by some entries that I've decided to start a community! It's at livre_jaune. Heh. Cuz I gave a green book to Zyfie for his birthday, so that he can record his happy memories, and for me, my colour is yellow! (= I'm not sure if any one will share in this community, but I'll like it very much if you would. *_*
"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
- William Penn
"When you give from your heart, it's not to get anything back. There is no owing or owed. You just give because you want to give. When you give like this, it fills you up. It can't empty you."
- (adapted) Grandmother of Dawna Markova
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
- The Dalai Lama
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
- Marcus Aurelius
"What good will it do you to think, 'Oh, I have done evil, I have made many mistakes?' It requires no ghost to tell us that. Bring in the light, and the evil goes out in a moment."
- Vivekananda
"Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest."
- Henry Van Dyke
"What you deny to others will be denied toyou, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in."
- Thaddeus Golas
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
- Albert Einstein
"If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt.... It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics."
- Gurdjieff
"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
- Teilhard de Chardin
"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will."
- Ecclesiastes
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."
- Kahil Gibran
"When I was in college, I worked part-time at a sporting goods store. There was a kid who would come by two or three times a week to visit with this baseball mitt that he wanted to buy. My manager and I would joke about him not only because he was so dedicated and persistent, but also because he had picked the best and most expensive mitt in the shop to get obsessed about.
This went on for months. The kid would come in, and you could tell he was so relieved that the mitt was still there. He would put it on, pound his fist into the pocket a couple of times, and then very carefully put it back on the shelf and leave. Finally, one day he came in with a shoebox and a smile about eight miles wide and announced that he wanted to buy the mitt. So the manager brought the mitt over to the cash register while the kid counted out a shoe box worth of nickels, quarters, and dimes. His stash came to exactly $19.98. The mitt cost $79.98, not including tax. My manager looked at the price tag, and sure enough the 7 was a little smudged, enough that a desperately hopeful seven-year-old could imagine it to be a 1. Then he looked at me, smiled, and very carefully recounted. 'Yep, exactly $19.98.' Wrapping up the mitt, he gave it to the boy."
"May it be, oh Lord,
That I seek not so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
Because it is in giving oneself that one receives; it is in forgetting oneself that one is found; it is in pardoning that one obtains pardon."
- St Francis of Assisi
"I had just graduated from college and had gone back to the town I grew up in to visit friends. My parents had sold the family home a few years back and moved out of state so I also took the opportunity to drive by the old house just to see it. Out n the front yard, perched in 'my' giant oak tree, was a boy about ten years old. I stopped the car, went over to introduce myself, and told the boy that when I was his age I practically lived in that tree. He thought that was really funny because he said his mother was always telling people that he lives in that tree.
While we were standing there talking, laughing, and feeling very good about our shared tree, a car drove up to the curb right in front of us. A middle-aged man got out of the driver's side, came around to the passenger side, and helped a very frail-looking man out of the car. I guess we were both staring, but the old man just walked up the tree, patted it on the side, looked at us, and said, 'I planted this tree sixty years ago when there was nothing here but fields. I still like to come visit it now and then.' Then he turned around, got back into the car, and drove away. We were both so shocked we didn't say a word until after the old man had left. Then the boy just looked at me and said, 'Wow'. "
"Man should not consider his material posessions his own, but common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
- St Thomas Aquinas
"Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love... kindness is goodwill, kindness says 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God."
- Randolph Ray
"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
- Buddha
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
- Anne Frank