Reflections on goodness

Reflections on goodness

Today I want to offer some reflections and thoughts on the goodness, which I found really interesting. 

I think your wisdom only when it comes from the heart, and your goodness only when it comes from reason. 

Arthur Schnitzler, The book of sayings and reflections 1927

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. 

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

What seasoning is necessary for all the goodness! The best virtues without goodness is worthless, with the worst vices redeem it. 

Lev Tolstoy, Journals, 1847-1910

There can be no goodness, kindness, goodness, but there is no courtesy. 

Voldben Amadeus (Amadeus Rotondi), Thoughts for a peaceful life, 2008

The sand in your hands

The sand in your hands

Listen to this reflections on the subject of friendship I think you can make people think.
William, a boy of thirteen, walking on the beach with his mother.
Suddenly he asked: "Mom, how do you keep a friend when I finally was able to find him?"
The mother pondered a moment, then leaned over and took two handfuls of sand.
Keeping your palms facing upward, clutched a hand escaped the sand between the toes, and the more his fist clenched, the more the sand escaped.
Instead held wide open the other hand: the sand remained there all.

Living, positive thinking

Living, positive thinking

Living life in a positive way and learn to give to those around you smile and liveliness of a life lived to the hilt.
I invite you to read this story and I think you will find the solution to your life.
Rob is the type of person that I enjoy to hate: it is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.
When someone asks how it goes, he replies: "If it went better than that, I'd be two people".
It's an optimist.
If a colleague has a day out, Rob always manages to make him see the positive side of the situation.
I was curious to see him one day and asked, "I do not understand, you can not be optimistic every day, how are you doing?".
Rob replied: "Every day I wake up and say to myself, now I have two options, I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood and I choose to be in a good mood. [continue...]

Blessed

Blessed

I found these beatitudes specially made for us and I will agree, give me your own opinion, I find them profoundly true and useful to better our lives.
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves: a thirst for fun.
Blessed are those who know how to distinguish a boulder from a mountain: avoid many hassles.
Blessed are those who know how to listen and be silent: they will learn many new things.
Blessed are those who are attentive to the demands of others will be stewards joy.
Blessed are you if you can look carefully at the small things and serenely important ones: you will go far in life.
Blessed are you if you can appreciate a and a snub forget: your path is always sunny. [...]

The cold in the heart

The cold in the heart

I say that people need to start living and to share and leave you this story that will make you think.
Six people, caught by chance in a dark cold night, on a deserted island, they found themselves each with a piece of wood in his hand. 

There was no other wood in the island lost in the mists of the North Sea.
At the center of a small fire slowly dying due to lack of fuel.
The cold became more and more unbearable.
The first person was a woman, but a flicker of flame lit up the face of a dark skinned immigrants.
The woman noticed it.
He clenched his fist around his piece of wood.
Why consume its wood to heat a slacker come to steal bread and work?
The man who was at his side he saw one that was not of his party. [...]