Want to Know If Someone is Kind? Look For These 7 Signs

And no, “nice” isn’t the same as kindness

Brooke Meredith
Change Your Mind Change Your Life

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You might be thinking, “But I know lots of nice people. I don’t need to know the signs. It’s obvious.”

Not so fast.

“Nice” is not the same as kind and kindness.

Nice is easy. Anyone can do it. Nice requires little effort. It can be falsely put on. Most people, aside from the nastiest of the nasty, can act nice in front of others for a couple of hours (even if they aren’t actually nice at all).

Nice is tepid milk, as opposed to kindness, which is a whipped cream topped, vivid, flavorful, showstopper of a frappuccino.

“Nice” is a nothing trait. It’s just a way of acting in the current setting. Anyone can be “nice” around certain others. It doesn’t necessarily speak to their quality of deeper heart.

Kind is something bigger, more significant, deeper, and more real.

Nice is a dime a dozen trait. Kindness is far rarer.

Here are the signs of someone who has this special quality:

#1- Kindness is operating with a generosity of heart

This means things like:

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