A Year of Living Kindly Quotes

“Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“Be easily pleased. Accept compliments, take a seat on the bus if someone offers it to you, embrace any kindness that comes your way. This is graciousness, and it is a gift for someone else. You are giving another person the gift of being graceful.”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” (Dalai Lama)”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“Carrying around anger and resentment toward others, or regrets and recriminations toward ourselves, serves no one. Kindness happens when we learn from mistakes, slights, and injuries; forgive and open up to a new story.”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” (L. R. Knost)”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“do you recognize that perfection is a myth that keeps us from being the interesting, contradictory, and often messy human beings that we all are at our core?”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“The weakness is in burying our feelings or denying our need.”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You

“kindness is a strength, a superpower that has the capacity to transform lives and change the world.”
― Donna Cameron, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You