"One kind word can warm three winter months"
Japanese Proverb
The date decreed for World Kindness Day is 13th November. The opening day of the first World Kindness Movement® conference was in 1988. This conference brought the signatories of the ‘declaration of kindness’ of the World Kindness Movement together in 1997. The intention of World Kindness Day is to look ahead of ourselves, ahead of the boundaries of our country, ahead of our culture, our race, our religion; we are citizens of the world! We must understand that if progress is to be made in human relations, if we are to accomplish the goal of peaceful coexistence, we must focus on what we have in common. When we find likenesses we begin to experience sympathy. While we may believe that people from other cultures are ‘different’ when we compare them with our own habits and beliefs, it doesn’t mean that we are any better than they are. When we become friends with someone from a different culture we find out that despite some obvious differences, there are many similarities.
What is an Act of Kindness?
An act of kindness is an unplanned gesture of goodwill towards someone or something - our fellow humans, the animal kingdom, and the empire of nature. Kind expressions and deeds come from a state of generosity, generated by a core response deep within all of us. When we carry out an act of kindness it is a message from one heart to another, an act of love, an unspoken "I care" declaration.
So... Lets be kind!
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Keller
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between sould, families and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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