Good Things About Kindness

Feels good

Compounds

Can be chosen

Changes our lives

Changes the world

Builds others up

We can start it now

Can make a difference

Can be part of daily life

We can always give it

Makes the day beautiful

We can’t do it too soon

We can keep it in our heart

Always makes a difference

Can change someone’s life

Stays with us and lingers

Can be remembered

Changes the lives of others

Ignites, even as it soothes

Makes everybody feel better

Fosters a more caring society

Is of more value than intention

Both comforts and gives clarity

We can understand it by practicing it

Traverses boundaries, race and disabilities

We can apply it to ourselves as well as others

Is within our power even when fondness is not

Not only makes others happy, but lifts our spirit too

Blesses the one who receives it, and blesses the giver

Accomplishes things that can’t be accomplished by force

Causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate

Changes people in the doing of it, often in unpredictable ways

Helps us transform into the greatest, truest version of ourselves

Makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him

Disarms our shields of cynicism and reaffirms our faith in humanity

Has never weakened the stamina or softened the fibre of a free people

Makes people feel valued and encouraged to reach their greatest heights

Helps us feel seen and appreciated in our own essence, and instantly empowered

Throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees

Picks us up, dusts us off, and urges us to stand tall regardless of the weight of our burdens

Is motivated by the desire to help another and not to gain explicit reward or to avoid explicit punishment

Changes us by challenging us to not be satisfied with mediocrity, but to dare to do better — to strive to be better

Will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away

Taps into the inherent goodness that resides in each of us and grows steadily stronger with every act of kindness that’s performed

Helps us see beyond the scope of our own individual problems and work to use our lives to do the most good for the most amount of people so the world is a better place because of it

Increases and intensifies until it becomes such a formidable force for good it knocks down the evil barriers of anger and animosity that stand between us and the peaceful world we want

Infuses the greatest energy into both body and soul, and creates that spirit of self-abandonment to the general good which annihilates selfish considerations and binds all classes in the bonds of peaceful and holy brotherhood