People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.
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.
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.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
People just deserve to be treated with kindness.
Don't mistake niceness for weakness.
I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.