Kindness

It Is Better to Be Kind Than Clever

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com, was ten years old when he saw a commercial stating that every puff a smoker took on a cigarette shortened his or her life by two minutes. He was quite a math whiz, so he began adding up how many minutes a long-...

Kindness, Words

Being Too Nice

Sixty-eight-year-old Elsie Holdren lost her position as a security guard in August 2010 because she was too courteous. Her superiors wrote, “Due to your caring and giving nature, you are compromising your position as a security officer....

Kindness, Work

Kindness Returned

There is a story told about the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Courthouse as the Civil War concluded. General Grant was an unusual man. Knowing the war was over and the victory was his, he showed great, and unusual, kindness and...

Kindness, Loyalty, Respect

Kind Words

One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their...

Encouragement, Friendship, Kindness

Kindness

It Is Better to Be Kind Than Clever

Being Too Nice

Kindness Returned

Kind Words

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