Kindness Starts With One®

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Do you have someone in your life who inspired you to be a better person? Did you witness an act of kindness that left an impression? Share your kindness story with the world.

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Groceries

One time I was at a local Publix as the man in front of me forgot his wallet at his house. I saw that he only had a few small items as I decided to pitch in and pay for his groceries, as he was overjoyed by my kind act.

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♡Skating Support♡

A girl who I recently befriended was having a skating recital which she invited me to watch. Being kind, I decided to make a poster for her. I did it to give her some extra support and cheer her on. When it was her turn to preform, I held up the poster and she seemed to like it. I am...

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Animals need kindness too

Colorado recently had terrible fires. Nearly 2,000 people lost there homes, but not just humans, animals too. My mom and I heard that during the fires people were out and about so the animals ran out of the house when the fires started and many animals became strays;so we signed up to be animal foster parents until they found new...

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Taxes

So this one time I went to the store to get an Xbox live gift card and I forgot taxes was a thing so when I got it and went to the cash register I didn't have enough money but then the cashier buys the whole gift card for me and when I got older I found him and we...

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Kindness Story

One person who really inspires me is my mom. She really inspires me to work hard, and to succeed in life. That's what I really love about my mom. She's the best.

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Full Circle

Everyday I do a random act of kindness but one particular day I went to visit my long time friend and I decided to share my story that I share with students in the classroom with her. I brought a beautifully wrapped gift for my friend to open after I finished the story. The items inside the wrapped gift went...

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My Coworker's Selflessness

A recent time I have experienced someone else demonstrating a random act of kindness was in my workplace. One time a customer came up to me and was asking for the manager of my department. She knew my manager’s name, so I suspected they must have known each other outside of the store or they really connected the last time...

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Paper Heart Attack

One of my favorite activities to do with students is a paper "Heart Attack". I was introduced to this idea when some friends of my daughter "heart attacked" our front door. I took this idea and now do it at school. As a principal, with the students' help, I have the opportunity to do a "Heart Attack" for every classroom...

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A teen helps out a Blind chick

I was on my way home as usual, then I saw some blind chick lookingfor her dog.So I came over their and said miss I'll help find your dog. But first I had to take her home so about 20 minutes later we got to her house. Before I left I said I'll find your dog as soon as possible....

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Shopping

Something I was taught and have carried on doing is letting people at the supermarket with baskets go before me when I have a trolley-load of things. I see it as common courtesy, but from the reactions this gesture always receives I realise it's seen as a random kindness. It always makes me feel better, anyway.

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Nathaniel

There was this kid Nathaniel who went to my school in elementary and he was a really nice and sweet kid but he always got bullied because of his facial deformation. There was also a girl named Natasha who pretty much was friends with everyone and could force anyone into doing what she wanted because she didn't care about getting...

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math class

Every day or at least I try for every day in math class when I get up and put away my calculator I take everyone’s that I see. One reason why I do this is because I am already going there so it just makes sense to help out and put their calculator back too. another reason why I do...

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Casey's rewards

In 2020 because corona was going around I was only allowed to hang out with 1 friend. Because she was the only one I was allowed to hang out with we hung out almost every single day during the summer. This one time we were at her house and we wanted food for our sleepover so we asked her mom...

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how my dad inspires me

my dad inspires me by showing me new experances to try. like he did show choir when he was younger and then he told me I should try it. but once I gave it a shot I relized how fun show choir is .

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Compliments impact my day :)

When someone compliments me, I get flustered and act stupid. So when a couple people I didn't know (during different time periods) complimented my style in clothing, my glasses, me, I just stood there feeling tingly and really happy. I tried to respond thank you and act cool and all, but really, it comes out weird and embarrassing. But now...

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the time i helped my friend

me and my were walking around and then he deiced it was a good idea to throw rocks in the pool and i told him that is not a good idea and we could get in a lot of trouble so my friend said yeah your are right so we walked away from the pool then we went back to...

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Dogsitting

So I was at home on a weekend and my dog needs to go outside so I let him out. I find my neighbors crying and talking so I go to them to try to help. They tell me that they have planned a trip to Florida and don't have a dog sitter and that's because their dog Brooklyn is...

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My story

My story starts with not having many friends to talk to and not really talking to people then a random person had walked up to me because I was a really quiet person at first. Then they just started to talk to me and I didn't want to be rude so I said something back. Then I saw others do...

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Someone inspired me

I was at my grandma house and a lot of my family was there so i was downstairs with all of my cousins and we was playing games watching TV and eating and i was just chilling on my phone with my favorite cousin and my cousin was scrolling threw Tiktok and we saw this video of this girl telling...

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new friends..

One day me and my friends choose to go to the park and when we did we meet a friend and her cousins was there too so we asked them if they wanted to walk with us around the park and all 5 of us walked to the store and buyed are self's a drink and walk back to the...

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A helped my Grandpa

My grandpa has this Traumatic Brain injury when he fought in the Vietnam War, In first grade, he got a surgery to help his body not shake and so he could hold things. It's been 6.5 years since the surgery and he still shakes just a little bit, It is super hard for him to hold things still with his...

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A Kid Inspired Me to Help the Environment

One time I was watching TV and saw a kid my age pick up trash so when I went to school I piked up a lot of trash in the playground

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Sky Zone

Me and my friend's family went to Sky Zone and were doing flips into the pit and some of the parents came over to play a game with us into the pit and it was really hard for them to get out of the pit. So when they tried to do a flip into the pit me and my friend...

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being honest has good effects

I was at the mall and then I saw some money on the ground I asked the lady in front of me if it was her's she said it wasn't her's so she offered it to me instead of taking it I put it next to the cash register. the moral of this act was if you do nice things...

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my dad

my dad inspires me because he teaches me everything I need to know. like activitys I should try or just introducing me to somthing. my dad inspires me to try new things.

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kindness story

The person who inspiers me was my family because of all the stuff they have done for me and my brother and so that inspiers me to be nice like my mom and my dad because of how awesome they are.

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STRUGGLING STUDENT

On day, we have a new student join our class from Mexico, he didn't speak fluent English but was provided with flash cards to practice with but now one would help him so, over about a 2 week time period, I helped him learn English with the cards, then went on to Google Searching images of the words on the...

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one my friends

we went to the same elementary school in sixth grade but we couldn't talk because of covid restrictions but once we got in to seventh grade he came up to me and we started talking and we became friends

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inspiration story

Not long ago me and my family were walking around a city then we saw a homeless person in a wheelchair. my mom offered the man money he took it and then what my mother did inspired me to be a better person and help the ones in need

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Kindness

In 2018 I don't know what it was about that year but people kept just saying nice things doing nice stuff and the people from my soccer club didn't get to upset about the loses.

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