{"id":5617,"date":"2014-05-01T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2014-05-01T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:02:30","slug":"oneword-thursday-kindness-is-everything-in-life-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2014\/05\/oneword-thursday-kindness-is-everything-in-life-isnt-it.html","title":{"rendered":"#OneWord Thursday: #Kindness Is Everything In Life, Isn’t it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OurWhile this city girl was driving the local southwest highways in her dual exhaust 2003 Durango, she tuned into NPR and listened in on an interview with Diane Rehm and the celebrated author George Saunders<\/a>.\u00a0 They spoke about the convocation address that Saunders delivered at Syracuse University\u2019s 2013 commencement,which centered on kindness and consequently went viral after the New York Times reprint<\/a>ed it.<\/p>\n

Saunders poignantly noted, “What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness \u2026. kindness, it turns out, is hard \u2014 it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include… well, everything.”<\/p>\n

Here, the link to the New York Times reprint<\/a> and …
\n… 10 Quotes on Kindness<\/strong> to help sweeten the pot.<\/p>\n

Read.<\/em>
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\n Be Kind.<\/em><\/p>\n

10 Quotes on Kindness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ~ Plato<\/p>\n

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. ~ Henry James<\/p>\n

No one has ever become poor by giving. ~ Anne Frank<\/p>\n

My religion is very simple.\u00a0 My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama XIV<\/p>\n

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.\u00a0 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~ Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n

Kindness in words creates confidence.\u00a0 Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.\u00a0 Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao Tzu<\/p>\n

To belittle, you have to be little. ~ Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n

Nothing make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. ~ Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n

Kindness, I\u2019ve discovered, is everything in life. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/p>\n

For more kindness,<\/em> join Our Lady of Weight Loss\u2019s <\/i>Kick in the Tush Club\/FB<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Spread the word\u2013NOT the icing,<\/em><\/p>\n

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