If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation, depression just is, like the weather.
Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who is depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do.
- Stephen Fry
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished
with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Give a flower
Eat lunch with someone new
Listen with your heart
Visit a sick friend
Clean your neighbor’s walk
Offer a hug
Give an unexpected gift
Make a new friend
Pick up litter
Say “hello”
Call a lonely person
Open a door
Help carry a load
Plant a tree
Pass a kindness on
Buy someone’s meal
Cheer up a friend
Thank a teacher
Give blood
Read to a child
Do one kind act every day
Leave a thank you note
Offer your seat
Tip generously
Be tolerant
Let another go first
Bake cookies for emergency workers
Tutor a student
Give a compliment
Pay the next driver’s toll
Lend a hand
Give a balloon to a child
Offer a ride
Celebrate the day
Respect others
Encourage a child
Walk a dog
Do a favor
Forgive mistakes
Drive courteously
Share a smile
To be kind is more important than to be right.
Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks
but a special heart that listens.
Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.
- Al Capone
Never take a person’s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
Respect people’s feelings.
Even if it does not mean anything to you,
it could mean everything to them.
Count my blessings
Practice kindness
Let go of what I can’t control
Listen to my heart
Be productive yet calm
Just breathe
I may not be perfect, but I am amazing, loyal, honest, and one of a kind. I am worth it! If you can’t see that, it’s your loss and you don’t deserve me.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster,
and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
