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Your Kindness Stories

Stories are the age-old way to share our experience. Stories enlighten, entertain, inspire, and move us to action. Visit this page for frequent updates to member stories, articles by contributing writers, or the latest news about kindness.

Fitness and Dance Kindness!

At our new Pilates, Dance, and Fitness studio a client came in and did a random act of kindness by pre-paying for a package for the next client who came in after her! When we gave it to the next...

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A smile

My 5year old daughter and I went to eat at a restaurant, she on one side of the booth, me on the other. She kept smiling to someone who was on the other side of the aisle, who was behind...

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A good rest.

Last march I was on a long ferry trip off the coast of British Colombia. Having got a room to sleep in. I went down to the observation deck. Wile walking the deck I noticed a young woman with her...

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Parking Meter

I was going the doctor's today, and I parked right out side the office next to a SUV. As i went to put a couple of quarters in the meter, a very old man came out of the doctor's office...

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Doing what we love.

On a cold, rainy late winter day I took my two sons to a place in Northern Arkansas (8 hours from our home) so that they could fish a stream dedicated to handicap and children under 15. My oldest only...

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Who needs just one day a year?

True random acts of kindness do not call attention to the giver but leave the recipient surprised and touched. Over the winter, someone has shoveled my snow for me on occasion, before I was able to get out the door...

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Umbrella

I was walking down K Street in Washington DC during a heavy rain. As I started to enter my buiding, I noted a well dressed woman struggling to stay under canopies, etc, as she had no umbrella. I gave her...

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strangers to friends

I had been out of my profession for years due to the economy and personal issues. For the last two years hubby and I had been living mainly on rice and beans. I know we had it better than people...

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Rainy Night

A few weeks ago my husband, daughter and I went to Target. It was late, cold and raining. As we walked up to the front entrance I saw that a young guy is sitting down with a sign saying that...

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You deserve it

At the market today, there was a mother and her two sons. I was waiting for my brother to finish shopping inside while I sat on a bench outside. I overheard the mother talking to the youngest son. He was...

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