When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind.
Interpretation
Choose kindness over being right in conflicts or disagreements.
This quote by Wayne Dyer emphasizes the importance of compassion and kindness in our interactions with others. It suggests that sometimes being 'right' or having the last word in a disagreement is less valuable than maintaining a sense of kindness and understanding, encouraging individuals to prioritize harmony and empathy in their relationships over the need to win arguments or prove a point.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about resolving conflicts in the workplace.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
No matter where you are in life, no matter what youβve contributed to creating, no matter whatβs happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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