Falling short of a goal doesn't mean failure. Often it's progress.
14 experiments, 10k people: people counted results that didn't meet targets as losses—even if they were gains.
The key measure of success isn't reaching your destination. It's improving from your starting point.
True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, our compassion for others does not change even if they behave negatively. Our sense of responsibility gives rise to a wish to help others actively overcome their problems.
One of my commitments is to promote human values based on common sense and scientific findings. What we need is more self-confidence, which comes from concern for others' well-being. The real source of inner strength and self-confidence is warm-heartedness.
If we focus too much on ourselves, we’ll not be happy, whereas to concern ourselves with the well-being of others is the gateway to great joy. If we’re really serious about happiness, we need to open our hearts and focus on others as well as ourselves.
Someone may be very rich and powerful but without any trusted friends they will never be happy. Someone else may be poor but if they are surrounded by trusting friends they’ll be happy. Therefore, taking care of others is the best way to fulfil our own interests.
One of my commitments is to promote human values based on common sense and scientific findings. What we need is more self-confidence, which comes from concern for others' well-being. The real source of inner strength and self-confidence is warm-heartedness.
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. We are selfish, that’s natural, but we need to be wisely selfish, not foolishly selfish. We have to concern ourselves more with others’ well-being, that’s the way to be wisely selfish.
It's time to plan for World Read Aloud Day 2022 with @litworldsays & @Scholastic!
Teachers & librarians - here's information about the 200+ authors & illustrators who have volunteered to Zoom into classrooms for short virtual read-alouds this year!
https://t.co/lEAdeOm0ci
The only thing that will bring happiness is affection and warmheartedness. When you have a more compassionate mind and cultivate warmheartedness, the whole atmosphere around you becomes more positive and friendlier. You see friends everywhere.
Teachers & librarians are facing a slew of book challenges lately, so I'm sharing a resource that I created during my years teaching middle school:
Books for All Kids (Not Just Yours) - An Open Letter for Educators & Librarians to Share with Families.
https://t.co/kd3Ansz8q2
Materialistic values cannot give us peace of mind. So we really need to focus on our inner values, our true humanity. Only this way can we have peace of mind—and more peace in our world.
"All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors--in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver."