Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.