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“Failures of Kindness”
I remember talking to a friend whose parents had been very involved in the civil rights movement. “They always said,” he told me, “that you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don’t expect other p
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Kindness isn’t always easy or obvious, because the urgent race to the bottom, to easily measured metrics and to scarcity, can distract us. But bending the arc toward justice, toward dignity and toward connection is our best way forward.
Seth Godin • Three types of kindness
more careful than usual, a little kinder.
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See the ways in which you have been generous and the ways in which you could still have been more so. Generosity brings us closer to others, allowing us to begin to experience the joy and delight of merging.