So little, so simple - can we do it?

Just a few us;
are we able to discharge our punishing dislikes and resentments
in private contemplation, and act with kindness - just once a day?
What a wonderful world it would be.

Louis Armstrong was admiring of the Karnofskys, a family of Jewish peddlers from Lithuania for whom he had worked as a boy in New Orleans.“They were always warm and kind to me, which was very noticeable to me—just a kid who could use a little word of kindness,” he recalled. He shared meals with them and borrowed money from them to buy his first cornet. Thereafter he would identify with the Karnofskys so closely that he wrote: “I will love these people, all of my life,” adding that he learned from them “how to live—real life and determination.”

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ---Mother Teresa The best portion of a good man's life are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ---William Wordsworth Kindness is goodwill, kindness says "I want you to be happy." Kindness comes very close to divine benevolence. ---Randolph Ray Start some kind word on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop. ---Sir Wilfred Grenfell The beginning and end of Torah is performing acts of kindness.... The highest wisdom is loving kindness. ---The Talmud If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. ---Frank Tyger My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ---The Dalai Lama He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is bitter is a slave, though he be a king. ---Saint Augustine

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