acts of kindness

[Kurt]

Not me...I'm a mess!

You have been fooled into believing that you are not pure love.

 

[sbartoldus]

Perhaps we all deserve love without limits.

..."weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not 'mine' or 'thine'...

(Christina Rossetti)

 

[Smiling JOe]

No husband has ever been shot doing the dishes. - unknown

 

[sbartoldus]

You have been fooled into believing that you are not pure love.

ditto! ditto! ditto!

Well said Kurt!

 

[sbartoldus]

Not me...I'm a mess!

One of my favorite Peanuts characters is Pigpen ;-)

 

[Bob]

I kept seeing and hearing this quote a while back so I decided to try to learn the origin and meaning. It seems to have many authors noted as saying it first, but who knows. From what I've read, the most common interpretation is, "life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed."

I think it's like the quote "No one remembers when I do right, and no one forgets when I make a mistake" or words to that effect. very sad but mostly true. My wife has one little sign on her crowded desk at school for her 5th grade classroom. The sign faces her students so that when they look at her they also see the sign. It has been there since the mid 80s, and it reads "character is doing what's right when nobody is looking". Nice tangent, but very powerful.

 

[NoHall]

I was made of pure love, but I overcame it!

How about this, then:

Treat others as you want to be treated. Kindness is loving people more than I deserve. (NoHall, NoitHall, HoHall)

 

[Rudyjohn]

"character is doing what's right when nobody is looking". Nice tangent, but very powerful.

so true - - love this ~

 

[Kurt]

I think it's like the quote "No one remembers when I do right, and no one forgets when I make a mistake" or words to that effect. very sad but mostly true. My wife has one little sign on her crowded desk at school for her 5th grade classroom. The sign faces her students so that when they look at her they also see the sign. It has been there since the mid 80s, and it reads "character is doing what's right when nobody is looking". Nice tangent, but very powerful.

I am not knocking your wife in any way and I'm glad she has that quote for her students. But this quote I see more and more and it bothers me a little bit. It reduces a very complex subject to a bumper sticker.

To me, doing what's right when no one is looking may be evidence of character, but it isn't character. Is doing the wrong thing when no one is looking a lack of character, or is it a mistake? Maybe part of character is learning from our mistakes. Can character be taught or is it innate? Or does it come from experience and wisdom?

 

[Mermaid]

I am not knocking your wife in any way and I'm glad she has that quote for her students. But this quote I see more and more and it bothers me a little bit. It reduces a very complex subject to a bumper sticker.

To me, doing what's right when no one is looking may be evidence of character, but it isn't character. Is doing the wrong thing when no one is looking a lack of character, or is it a mistake? Maybe part of character is learning from our mistakes. Can character be taught or is it innate? Or does it come from experience and wisdom?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.: "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."