January 7

Kindness is necessary in relationships with people. If you are not kind to a person, you are not fulfilling your major obligation.

 

You have to respect every person, no matter how miserable or ridiculous he or she may be. You should remember that in every person lives the same spirit which lives in us.

— After Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Do not be cruel of heart to those who are tempted,
but t to console them, just as you would like to be
comforted.

— From the Book Of Divine Thoughts

 

(1) Do not postpone for tomorrow what you can do today. (2) Do not force another person to do what you can do by yourself. (3) Pride costs more than all that is necessary for food, drink, shelter, or dress. (4) We suffer so much, thinking about what could have happened, but not about what has actually happened. (5) If you lose your temper, count up to ten before you do or say anything. If you haven't calmed down, then count to a hundred; and if you have not calmed down after this, count up to a thousand.

— After Thomas Jefferson

 

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

 

Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful.

September 5

You should teach others with a good example, but if you teach with evil, then you do not teach, but destroy.

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

— Matthew 18:21 22

Sinful people had once accepted their right to punish others and most of our misfortunes started from this.

If you think someone is guilty of wrong doing you, forgive him. If you have never forgiven the guilty before, you will experience a new joy: the joy of forgiving.

Punishment is always cruel, always painful.

The American Indians had no laws, no punishments, and no government. They obeyed the moral understanding of good and evil that is part of every human nature.

— Thomas Jefferson

The strongest proof that in the name of "science" we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment, which in itself is one of the most ignorant and offensive types of action known to man, a vestige of the lowest level of human development, lower than that of a child or a madman.