Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Great Love Messages !
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
~ Felix Adler.
We are all born for love...it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Disraeli.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell.
We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch.
Being kind feels good , Few Reasons Why to Be Kind
1. Being kind feels good. Doing something for someone else really does make us feel good. Just as running releases endorphins, so does kindness. Make someone smile and you'll feel better for having done so.
2. God smiles on kindness. Whether we are Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, kindness is an important part of the exhortations of all these religions. Both Buddha and Christ were kind and encouraged their followers to be likewise.
3. Kindness broadens our perspective. In order to be kind, we have to pay attention to what is happening around us. As we notice more things and help others, we get a glimpse of other ways of looking at things. A broader perspective helps us to keep things in context.
4. Kindness softens our heart. When we look for kind deeds, beauty, and the opportunity for kindness, we'll find that we are more compassionate and more tolerant. As we practice empathy, it opens our heart to others.
5. Kindness brightens our world. When we are kind to people, it makes them happy. The more people who experience kindness from us, the more happy people will be in our lives. When those around us are happier, our world becomes a brighter, lighter place to live.
6. Kindness helps people feel respected and less alone. By recognizing someone's need for help and acting on it in a compassionate manner, it makes the recipient feel valued. It also makes the giver feel better about themselves and more connected.
7. Kindness makes people want to be around us. One of the most common responses to kindness is gratitude. People appreciate what we've done for them. Our kindness is very attractive, so they want to be around us and actually seek us out. The Buddha lists this as one of the eleven impacts of loving kindness, but he put it even more strongly, saying: "Loving kindness will make people love you."
8. Kindness bears wonderful fruit. Kindness begets kindness, openness, health and reduces the effects of stress on our bodies and our hearts. In many ways, kindness is like Liquid Plumber for the soul: it opens us up, clears out the dross, and dwells lightly in our hearts.
9. Kindness begets kindness. When you are kind to others, the impact of your action doesn't stop there. Many times the recipient of your kindness and others who see or hear about your kindness are inspired to be kinder. The ripples of kindness are truly endless.
10. Your kids will learn from your example. When you are kind to friends and acquaintances, your kids will be more likely to be kind as well. People often treat their children with kindness, but can be short with a crazy driver, strangers, or others outside the family. This can cause "us and them" thinking that devalues others as "less" than ourselves. Kindness breeds tolerance and understanding.
Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like YouLove often carries with it incredible powers of communion and soulful relations
Love often carries with it incredible powers of communion and soulful relations.
Here the clasping of hands marks the beginning of a journey quite familiar to those who have known profound devotion and passion.
It's like the old song,Days of Wine and Roses, laugh and run away, like a child at play, through a meadowland toward an open door,which some say is the door of nevermore.
This door, by which here are depicted the symbols of love and happiness, the bluebird and the rose, the field of daisies from the summers of our lives,has opened to the great mystery that may lie beyond life as we know it.
Another symbol, the stream of time,lies at the foot of that mysterious path beyond the door. We might be carried up this stream where stones are reflecting the golden light of another realm, giving way to the emergence of forms as though from the ancient clay of matter, that one by one go on into the eternal light as they take shape....
Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like YouWe Are Made Kind By Being Kind
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.-Joseph Joubert
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.- Dalai Lama
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. – Amelia Earhart
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.- Lao Tzu
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.– Julia Alvarez
Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like YouKindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~ Samuel Johnson
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.
~ Confucius
Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
~ Author Unknown
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~ Henry Boye
When I was young, I admired clever people.
Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape?
No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable,
for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
~ Mark Twain
Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like YouTuesday, April 19, 2011
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