Forget about being nice and focus on being kind. Start intentionally creating tiny acts of radical kindness.
Being Nice
- Never wants to rock the boat
- Most concerned with upsetting others
- Afraid to speak up when they witness unkind behavior
- Worried about being like
Being Kind
- Willing to be disruptive and make waves
- Most concerned with doing what is right
- Willing to speak up and take a stand in uncomfortable situations
- Worried about being kind
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If the news feels overwhelming and you find yourself thinking, “Nothing I can do is going to make a difference anyways,” we invite you to…
- Choose kindness
- Choose hope
- Choose community
- Choose love
- Choose creativity
- Choose action
Choose kindness.
To choose, every day, to look out for one another may seem small but is, in fact, profound. Because it is in these everyday choices—of sustaining, uplifting, and affirming life—that we begin shaping the world into something new.
—CHI NWOSU
How would your life be different if you stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day you start looking for the good in everyone you meet.
—STEVE MARABOLI
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
—FRED ROGERS
They say nobody is coming to save you, but many people have saved me, even if they didn’t intend to. It can be as small as a smile from a stranger, a nudge from an animal, words from a writer, the lyrics to a song, an observant friend. We are all saving each other every single day in tiny seemingly insignificant ways.
—SHARON MCMAHON
Choose hope.
So much of this is an attempt for us to give up on hope, justice, love, democracy and each other—if you stop believing and give up, the darkness grows. We have to find ways to continue to believe in each other.
—ANGELA STROUD
The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they’re generally not the ones being touted in the news.
—FRED ROGERS
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.
—ROY BENNETT
If you’re standing up for what’s right and it feels like no one is standing with you—keep going. Being courageous has never required a crowd cheering you on. History is changed by people who had courage in their convictions.
—SHARON MCMAHON
Choose community.
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
—FRED ROGERS
Building community is radical. We have to relearn to build trust with our neighbors; this is the first step for building back democracy. We have to believe it is possible.
—ANGELA STROUD
We can choose community—that is, to connect truthfully with one another. I don’t have to pretend that everything is alright, and you don’t have to either. We can meet here, in this place of reality, and choose to spark connection. This moment in our history is heartbreaking; won’t you join me in putting the pieces back together?
—CHI NWOSU
It’s very dramatic when people come together to work something out. What is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
—FRED ROGERS
Choose love.
The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.
—FRED ROGERS
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of resolution and strength.
—KAHLIL GIBRAN
Some days, doing “the best we can” may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
—FRED ROGERS
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.
—AMIT RAY
Choose creativity.
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
—ROY BENNETT
The universe offers us moments to choose aliveness, even in the face of fear. It is an act of resistance to turn toward life, toward love, toward creativity. And it is not a task we must bear alone.
—CHI NWOSU
Creativity is a lifeline for fighting despair. Our bodies are capable of reproducing so much beauty: dance, song, art-making, laughter, wailing. And as long as I have this body, and you have your body, we can choose creativity in spite of this fear. It is free, and it is abundant.
—CHI NWOSU
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
—JAMES BALDWIN
Choose action.
Witnessing and disapproving will not save us. We must be willing to act and refuse to act on the basis of what we know is right. We must build a rebellious culture of care.
—SHARON MCMAHON
Your voice might not reach everyone. But it might reach the one who is standing on the edge, waiting for courage to speak up. If you go first, someone might go further. Maybe you’re not waiting for a sign. Maybe you are one.
—SHARON MCMAHON
You might not fight for my rights, but I’ll fight for yours.
—MEGHAN WALLACE
If you’re standing up for what’s right and it feels like no one is standing with you—keep going. Being courageous has never required a crowd cheering you on. History is changed by people who had courage in their convictions.
—SHARON MCMAHON
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