Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
Interpretation
Kindness benefits both the giver and the receiver, creating a positive cycle of generosity.
This quote emphasizes the unique nature of kindness as a force that enriches both the individual who gives and the one who receives. Unlike many other actions, kindness creates a mutual benefit, fostering a sense of connection and enhancing the well-being of both parties involved.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Daniel Lubetzky wisely noted, kindness increases simultaneously for both the giver and receiver.'
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.
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.
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.
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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