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.
Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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