If kindness and compassion opens the door to manipulation, it is time to take your business elsewhere.

Manipulation is application of intelligence on people to achieve a pre-meditated outcome solely benefitting the former than latter.

I choose to walk
with gratitude, not envy;
with faith, not worry;
with confidence, not fear;
with kindness, not anger.

I find it extremely frustrating that those who strive for prestige get a free pass on the bad behavior it often takes to get there.

Avoid those who would take what is yours to use as the like.

When we constantly react to assumptions and hearsay, bad things happen.