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.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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