My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the profound kindness and resilience of the speaker's father, a Holocaust survivor.
Daniel Lubetzky reflects on the remarkable kindness of his father, despite the immense suffering he endured as a Holocaust survivor. His father's ability to maintain a positive outlook on life, even after being liberated from the horrors of a concentration camp, illustrates the power of the human spirit and the importance of empathy and compassion in facing adversity.
In practice
When speaking at a charity event focused on kindness, this quote can illustrate the transformative power of empathy.
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.
You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
To maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, we have to create a culture in which everyone remembers that every order, big or small - and every interaction, every moment - will define what our company is today and what it will become tomorrow.
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.
Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.
An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
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