Piero Ferrucci Quotes

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If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say.

Piero Ferrucci
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Piero Ferrucci
Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it.... The true benefit of kindness is being kind. Perhaps more than any other factor, kindness gives meaning and value to our life, raises us above our troubles and our battles, and makes us feel good about ourselves.

Piero Ferrucci
We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Piero Ferrucci
If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

Piero Ferrucci
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

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Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making _less_ effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.

Piero Ferrucci
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

Piero Ferrucci