“Kindness in words creates confidence.  Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.  Kindness in Giving Creates Love.”  – Lao-Tzu

To put it simply, kindness in anything creates something positive.  This is why it is so inherently important to live our lives keeping kindness to others a priority.  By this thinking, when others are kind to us:

- it sometimes helps us find our voice – constructive criticism doesn’t take our feet out from under us but encourages us to try again at something without the fear of failure or judgment

- it sometimes helps us graduate to new levels of understanding about ourselves and others

- it sometimes helps us learn to pass goodness along and act lovingly rather than selfishly or violently; and maybe, just maybe it allows us a glimpse into some of the goodness in this world that we so easily forget when we are surrounded by fear, sadness and negativity

What other quotes do you find thought-provoking?

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