“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” - Theodore Isaac Rubin
Is your wisdom driven by kindness?
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected.” - Chief Seattle Duwamish
How are you connected to everyone and everything around you? “We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.” - Alicia Garza
Would you say something to someone on line that you would not say to their face? "If a person be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility." - Plato
Do you put the feelings and rights of others before your own feelings and rights? "A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." - Lord Jeffrey
Would your ancestors be proud of how you use their name? Don't Say Something Out of Anger
"There was once a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence. On the first day the boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day he kept his temper under control. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like these holes. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there." From: Thought Catalog "A person has to live with themselves, and they should see to it that they always have good company." - Charles Evans Hughes
Are your regrets preventing you from living with good company? "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes
Are you aware of the small opportunities life puts in your path? "Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough." - T. S. Eliot
When was the last time you accomplished something you thought you couldn't do? "Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought." - Hazlitt
How would someone describe your character? "We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly." - Voltaire
When was the last time you were obligingly honest with someone? |
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