I know you’ll be kind … and clever … and bold. And the bigger your heart, the more it will hold. When nights are black and when days are grey – you’ll be brave and be bright so no shadows can stay. And become anybody that you’d like to be. And then I’ll look at you and you’ll look at me and I’ll love you, whoever you’ve grown up to be.
Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Words can be worrisome, people complex, motives and manners unclear. Grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
When given the choice between being right or being kind choose kind.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it. It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.