"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it...Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings ~ that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
~ Buddha
"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings...I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
~ Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) American writer, Nobel Prize (1938) in Literature, Pulitzer Prize (1932) for novel. The Good Earth, 1931.
"The only gift is a portion of thyself...the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet.
"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion."
~ William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) American novelist
~ Random Acts of Kindness (a gem of a book ~ lbw), Editors of Conari Press, 1992 Conari Press.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS DAY, is an unofficial holiday held around the world each year on September 1st. Random Acts of Kindness Day 2012 honoured those killed in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012.
