Use your heart for love
Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your Heart for Love.
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A little spark of kindness
A little spark of kindness can put a colossal burst of sunshine into someone’s day.
~ Author Unknown
Something to think about…
“One receives only that which is given. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words, return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”
~ Florence Scovel Shin
Each of us can attest to the truth of this passage. During the difficult times, however, it is not uppermost in our minds that “what goes around, comes around.” It feels all too easy to be justifiably resentful or to gossip or to ignore another’s presence. And the repercussions are seldom immediate. They will come, though.
Goodness is likewise repaid. Giving love, attention, and respect to the individuals who share our lives and to the people who cross our paths by chance will smooth our own passage day by day. The effects of our goodness will often be felt quickly. A smile elicits a smile. Kind thoughts bless us as well as the receiver. Life events do come full circle.
With a bit of effort, I can smile at someone today, even though I’m frowning inside. Both will be better for it.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
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Better and happier
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
~ Mother Teresa
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A single act of kindness
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
~ Amelia Earhart
Be kind to one another
Be kind to one another, even if you disagree on stuff.
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We are healed in our healing of others
In giving, we heal ourselves.
Something to think about…
Someone will be helped today by our kindness. Compassionate attention assures others that they do matter, and every one of us needs that reassurance occasionally. Offering words of encouragement to others, or a willing ear, can be unexpected gifts. They will be deepy appreciated.
A secondary gift, though, is to ourselves. Helping someone in need benefits the helper just as much. Our own closeness to God — and thus, assurance about our own being — is strengthened each time we do God’s work, each time we do what our hearts direct.
We are healed in our healing of others. God speaks to us through our words to others. Our own well-being is enhanced each time we put someone else’s well-being first.
We’re all on a trip, following different road maps, but to the same destination. Be ready to lend a helping hand to a troubled traveler today. It will breathe new life into your own trip.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Just because
Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.
~ Bill Clinton
Do all the good you can
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.
~ John Wesley
Give to feel good
Here are three top reasons why you should show you are thankful by giving back to your community:
1. Get your Dopamine boost! Did you know that giving of your time or volunteering can release the same feel-good sensation as eating chocolate or a candy bar. Dopamine is the feel-good chemical that is linked with pleasurable experiences, such as enjoying a good meal or spending time with a close friend. For example, when we see a chocolate bar, dopamine makes us want to eat it. When we eat it, we feel a rush of dopamine-induced pleasure. Dopamine reinforces behaviors that make us feel really good to make sure that we engage in that behavior again. Brain scans show a surge of dopamine when we give or volunteer our time. Researchers call this “the helper’s high”. So when you volunteer your time or do something good for others you get that same wonderful feel-good sensation.
2. Motives Matter: Volunteering or giving back to the community can seem like a selfless act. But, in fact, people volunteer for a wide range of reasons, from getting out of the house and meeting new people to doing something good for others. A study of over 3000 people found that people who volunteer because they want to help others, live longer than people who don’t volunteer at all. In fact, those mainly for some sort of personal benefit live no longer than non-volunteers.
3. Don’t use your busy schedule as an excuse–giving time can give YOU time: Researchers found that giving away time boosts your own sense of personal competence and efficiency. As a result, it ‘stretches’ our perspective of time in our minds, and makes us more willing to commit to future engagements despite our busy schedules.
2. Motives Matter: Volunteering or giving back to the community can seem like a selfless act. But, in fact, people volunteer for a wide range of reasons, from getting out of the house and meeting new people to doing something good for others. A study of over 3000 people found that people who volunteer because they want to help others, live longer than people who don’t volunteer at all. In fact, those mainly for some sort of personal benefit live no longer than non-volunteers.
3. Don’t use your busy schedule as an excuse–giving time can give YOU time: Researchers found that giving away time boosts your own sense of personal competence and efficiency. As a result, it ‘stretches’ our perspective of time in our minds, and makes us more willing to commit to future engagements despite our busy schedules.
Published on January 16, 2013 by Tracy P. Alloway, Ph.D. in Keep It in Mind
via Give to feel good | Psychology Today.
Kindness
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
~ Mother Teresa
Kindness
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
The life we live
We know that life is never measured by how many years we live but by the kindly things we do and the happiness we give.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
Kindness is a language
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain
Be kind
Be kind to the wishers who haven’t got wishes.
Be kind to the fishers who haven’t got fishes.
Be kind to beginners who haven’t got ends.
Be kind to the strangers who haven’t got friends.
Be kind to the walkers who haven’t a show.
Be kind to the talks who haven’t a clue.
Be kind to the outsiders and insiders, too.
Be kind to the kind kept confined in the zoo.
Be kind in your mind and in all that you do,
And you’ll find that mankind can be kind to you, too.
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Value others above yourselves
In humility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
~ Philippians 2:4
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