“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway
Brokenness
An open heart for Kindness
Single act of kindness
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” -Amelia Earhart
Showing compassion
Compassion
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Hurt people..hurt people”…assume that behind every difficult person, there is a lot of hidden hurt!
Creating lists…
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Focus on the good in others…
The key to happiness
Selflessness = happiness
Germinal (Émile Zola)
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Hope
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl
