What a week!
Brazen Pollyanna has been quiet for a while, but with plenty of thinking going on all the while…
This week seems to have brought a number of ideas together, from the children and me agreeing to sponsor a child in Uganda, to the idea of enabling villages in the UK to somehow sponsor a village in [...]
Our deepest fear…
A few years ago a friend brought this Marianne Williamson quotation to my attention, and goodness did it strike a chord. I believe we should all take this to our hearts and hold it dear. Print it out and put it up where our children, and we, can see it daily.
“Our deepest fear [...]
Famous Quotations on Kindness
There are many wonderful and inspiring quotations on the kindness theme; please add your favourites:
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama
For beautiful lips, speak words of kindness.” Audrey Hepburn
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Quoted in P.S. I [...]
Science proves it’s good to be kind!
Quite likely if you’re here reading this you don’t need any boffins to tell you that kindness makes a difference. However for those who perhaps are more cynical, might it persuade you to be a tad nicer?
The New Scientist posted the proof in their “Better World: Be nice to people” article:
It sounds kind of obvious, [...]