By Remez Sasson

Have you seen what happens when two cats meet on a fence or on top of a narrow wall? They stand facing each other, howling at each other and showing their teeth. No one is willing to let the other pass. It is like the video I posted a few weeks ago.

Similar incidents take place between human beings. Often, there is no tolerance, no patience and no flexibility, and also an inflated ego, each one thinking that he or she is right, and want to have his or her way. This leads to clashes, disputes, and lack of harmony. This happens at home, at the office, at the school, and almost everywhere else. This also happens between groups of people, religions, and countries.

It is as if people see that world through a certain kind of eyeglasses, which distorts reality. What about looking at the world, without the eyeglasses?

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Kindness means being considerate, tolerant, nice to others, saying please and thank you, and helping others. When you treat other people with kindness, you and the other people feel good.

Here are a few quotes on kindness:

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao-Tzu -

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer -

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther -

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
- Deepak Chopra -

It’s so easy to laugh. It’s so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
– Stephen Morrissey -

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa -

Read more quotes at:
www.successconsciousness.com/quotes/kindness.htm