Kindness Starts With One®

One smile. One hug. One cup of coffee. One person...

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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The Time I Held The Door For a Bunch Of People.

I was on my way to get dinner with my family and when we got there my family walked in but I saw a bunch of people about to come in so I held the door until they came and it made me feel really good. They said thank you and so I went back with my family and...

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Kindness Begins with me!

Once upon a time, their was one boy that was walking in the hallways, and when I saw him he dropped like Chocolate milk. Suddenly I when to the bathroom to get paper-towels to HELP him clean up. Then when I was done the staff give me an Shark-Bite. The End!

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Kindness Matters

Kindness matters, always smile at someone u see no matter what if they smile at u u smile back to them u never know they could be having a bad day or that the kindness hit them one someone smile them if u smile at that person it would make them fell good or u feel better more u do...

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kindness

There was a new kid at school in school and for a few days they really had no friends.They just moved from one place to another and didn't know anyone in my class so i decided to become his friend. After a while we became good friends and it turns out we liked many of the same things.

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My Random Act of Kindness

My random act of kindness is when my friends and I we're playing four square at recess. So when we we're playing, one of my friends hit the ball and she hit it out of bounds. When she hit it out of bounds, everyone was saying she was out but she didn't agree. Since she was very sensitive about it...

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Make Your Day

Once in Kindergarten, It was my first day of school in a new school.I didn't know alot of people and I was very confused. I was on the bus sitting in a seat alone. I decided to sit with someone. I found a person sitting alone on the bus. I sat next to him and we talked. And I sat...

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Football Kindness

In the semi finals in football my team was winning by over 35 points.And once the game was over in 14 degree weather I saw a kid crying and upset that his team lost in the semi finals so I went up to him and was cheering him up.It was a good game on both sides of the ball for...

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Kindness

Someone at the supermarket held the the door open while my hands were full. I helped my little brother with homework he was struggling with. kindness doesn't take a lot of work.

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act of kindness

One time someone dropped there stuff during music.He was picking up his stuff with no one helping him.Then I helped pick up his stuff.He thanked me for helping him picking up his music and his binder.And told me that I was being very kind to him.

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picking a change

So one day last year at a grocery story (aka Stop and Shop) an older person dropped there change. But i stood right there and pick all the change up for her. thats all!

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Kindness helps others

One time in school i feel and hurt my self. I walked down to the nurse when a student asked if i was okay. When she said that i felt better. I told her i was okay she smiled and made me smile too

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one act of kindness

one time their was a girl who was crying because she got a 80 on her test and i went over to her and i said why are you crying and she said because i got a 80 and i said you should not be crying a 80 is a amazing score and you should be proud i am proud...

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The Fat Shaming Incident

One time my friend was making fun of me for being FAT. I was so angry and sad, I wanted to express my deep anger to that friend. But I remember that kindness is the key, so rather, I bought him a box of chocolate and say "Let's be fat together". Since then, we became best friends.

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dance for a free slice of pizza

I was in nyc and this man was standing up with a sign and it said dance for a piece and i danced and got a piece of pizza

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dance for a free slice of pizza

I was in nyc and this man was standing up with a sign and it said dance for a piece and i danced and got a piece of pizza

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when i held the door for somebody

I went to the store and i bought clothes and somebody already paid so we came out of the store at the same time so i held the door for her and she said thank you

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the 7,11 story

my dad owns a daycare and i sometimes go there and it was it was July 11 and we went to 7,11 to get Slurpee's and when we were getting ready to pay the guy in front off us payed for us

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humble and kind

One day i was going grocery shopping with my mom and dad. When i see this homeless lady sitting at the corner of the doors. I ask my dad "Dad can we help her she is poor!" I say with a frown on my face. "Um i don't know baby girl. We just bought all this food". I look at...

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A night at the dinner

One day my family and I went to this dinner, when we where finished my father payed the waitress a 25$ tip. The waitress told him that made his day and made him really happy.

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An Act Of Kindness

When I still lived at my old house i had an elderly neighbor. one day she was bringing in her groceries, and i came outside and helped her bring it in. in return she gave me a bunch of candy.

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Extra change goes a long way

I went to the store with my dad and there was people in front of us. There was one family in front of us and they didn't have enough money and they were short five dollars. Me and my dad gave them five dollars and they were able to buy there groceries .

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The necklace

I was at a jewelry store and there was a girl who was looking at the necklaces. She asked her parents if she could get a necklace and they said no. I felt bad so i asked my parents if I could get a necklace and they said yes. I saw the same girl in another store so I let...

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im hungry

I was waiting online for the best restaurant in New York city and there was a poor person waiting at the back.We saw him and told him to come to the front with us and he ate before us, and we paid for him

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Dance Class

Once i missed one of my dance classes and when i had dance class again my friends taught me the part of the dance i missed and it helped me a lot.

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helping the homeless

The other day on a Monday i went to Aladdin on Broadway and we when to carmines to eat and they gave huge size plates and we had a lot of left overs so we paged them up and walked around the city and gave all the food to a bunch of homeless people so they had a dinner

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kindness begins with me

One day when i saw someone who seemed really upset and didnt have any friends so i went up and asked them hey do you want to be friends and she said you just made my day the best one ever.

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Helping people with there bags

One time me and my mom where putting the bags in the truck it was pouring.And we saw a elderly lady and she was trying to but her bags in the car but she was struggling.So me and my mom helped helped her.

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Helping people with there bags

One time me and my mom where putting the bags in the truck it was pouring.And we saw a elderly lady and she was trying to but her bags in the car but she was struggling.So me and my mom helped helped her.

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STARBUCKS

ONE DAY ME AND MY DAD WENT TO STARBUCKS AND THE LADY IN FRONT OF US PAID FOR OUR STUFF AND WE PAID FOR THE PEOPLE IN BACK OF US. :)

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Road Trip

Me and my friends were coming home from a road trip and we saw an old lady on the side of the road. We had a lot of extra food in the car. We felt really bad so we decided to give her some cereal and a juice box, doing this mad me feel really good.

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