World Kindness Day

Today is World Kindness Day. Attempt to make the world a better place by celebrating and promoting good deeds and random acts of kindness.

Here are some ways to show kindness to others:

• Smile at strangers.
• Give up your seat on the bus to someone else.
• Buy someone’s coffee for them.
• Volunteer your time at the local soup kitchen.
• Leave a kind note for someone.
• Kindness should not only be reserved for our fellow human beings. Be kind to the animals and to the environment as well.
• Pass along a wonderful book you’ve finished reading.
• Take a meal to new parents.
• Give praise to others.

Quotes for the day:

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” —Aesop

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” —Mark Twain

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” —William Arthur Ward

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” —Lao Tzu

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” —Princess Diana

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.” —Tommy Lee Jones

“The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin

“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.” —Buddha

 

How will you celebrate World Kindness Day?

Nancy Roe
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