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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Love at the Border

I had the chance to watch Hugo, Eunice and Yonathan Moya risk their own safety to take love to some hurting people across the border from the Rio Grande Valley. Their love looked like smiles, hugs, tacos, hygeine kits and interaction that let these marginalized people know they are loved and not forgotten. It was beautifully kind!!

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Awesome.one "Awesome" app with Kindness Challenges

After my wife Jill died in 2016 from a texting-while-driving accident, I was left to navigate raising our 4 children under 10. Making sure my children grow into beautiful kind hearted adults is my greatest goal. My Children are growing up in a digital Social World and I want to help provide them with the best tools possible, but there...

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helping

one time me and my dad were at the store and a lady had a lot of bags so we went over there and helped her at self check-out. Once we were done she returned the kindness to us by giving us hugs and buying us anything we wanted in the store

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Lunch

On the first day of middle school,I was sitting down at lunch and I see this girl.She did not speak any English and did not bring any lunch,so I gave her my lunch.

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Life with Ruth

Two and a half years ago I began the toughest and most rewarding job I've ever had. I am the live-in caregiver for my sister-in-law's mother. Ruth has dementia. I was worried I wouldn't be able to handle this whole thing. It has been the most challenging growth experience of my life! Ruth is my hero. In spite of how...

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Every Day

At school every day I do something. one day I would pay for someones lunch. the next day I would help the cook. my challenge is to help someone at lunch or every where but one person can't do it all of us need to!!

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One kind act ...

I was sat in the ER with my husband.  his health was poor,  and I was with my three daughters aged 6, 4 and 6 weeks. A very kind lady helped me by playing cards with my two eldest daughters and feeding my baby her milk. My husband is still with us 20 years on although he lost his leg (a right hip...

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Lost Wallet

one day me and my mom were going to the store, and when we got to the doors there was a wallet just laying there on the ground. I picked it up and showed my mom, she told me to take the drivers license out; i did. we looked around and around the store for the person that had no...

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Chuckee Cheese

When I was at Chuckee Cheese I really wanted this barbie doll, but I didn't have enough tickets, so the guy running the prize booth gave me the barbie doll.

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Day at chucky cheese.

When I was very young, I went to chucky cheese for a family day. I had my heart set on this cool toy that could turn from a gun to a sword. I worked super hard on getting as many tickets as I could. But then, I ran out of tokens. I had about 700 tickets, but the gun sword...

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Lost Card

I was at a football game and my friend Found a card, (I think a credit card) so we handed it to the concession people, so they could find the person it belonged to.

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Grandparents

My grandma once told me that my great-grandma had a horrible toothache, I know how much my great-grandma loves talking to us grandkids, so I decided to call her and ask about her tooth. I just know it made her day!!! So every chance you get, call or go see your grandparents please, I know they will love it!!

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Act of Kindness

When My Father and I were going to the Pistons game after eating at a restaurant, my dad had a little box of pizza left and we gave a homeless guy our pizza to eat.

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Resturant

When my mom and I were at a restaurant eating dinner, and we asked for the bill. The waiter told us that somebody has already paid for our bill. This made me realize that any stranger could do something like that and that everybody should be as kind as possible.

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Fallen

One day I was in like 4th grade, It was during recess and me and my friend Charlie were walking around the track in the snow goofing around. We walked around belting out song lyrics(I still do) when we watched a little girl slip on the ice and fall. ¨Are you Ok?"I asked worried. The girl was in tears. ¨Can...

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Random Hugs

I have been struggling with anxiety and depression, and am currently in the process of changing meds. It had been nearly 36 hours since I had sleep, and I was sitting at the doctors clinic a bit upset and sniffly waiting to see my doctor. A lady was sitting opposite me and asked if I was ok, and if I...

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Day out in beauty parlour with my daughter

I was with my daughter in Beauty parlour and waiting to be seen and there comes young girl who had appointment booked already I told her to go first and when she sat infront of the lady she was checking her purse to pay for her eyebrow threading and she was counting all her changes that she and she was...

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Customer's story

I went to see this customer who is living alone and she was very very upset and was in tears as her aunt died in South Africa And she couldn’t go to the funeral as she suffering from athristis and she asked me to read this letter which her brother had sent her and I told her this is personnel...

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TWINS TRADING BIRTHDAY PRESENTS TO SAVE LIVES OF YOUTH ADDICTED TO VAPING

In memory of our 17 year old Instagram friend who died due to VAPING and 16 year old best friend who collapsed due to VAPING on her SWEET 16 Birthday, we traded our 17th year old birthday presents to save lives of youth due to vaping. We asked all our family and friends to donate to our favourite charity St...

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Brave

I starting volunteering in a church shelters and i was very kind to the people who needed us the most when they had no one else and it felt so good to see the smile in they eyes priceless moments

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Brave

I starting volunteering in a church shelters and i was very kind to the people who needed us the most when they had no one else and it felt so good to see the smile in they eyes priceless moments

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Unconditional Selfless Love

I have a fear of death or thanatophobia. Being hospitalized or the mere fact that I am lying in a hospital bed, have myself confined on a dextrose and to undergo a surgery is one of my greatest fears in life which I successfully overcome and survived this week. It's truly a nightmare to undergo under the knife and open...

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The Kindness of a Stranger

Earlier this week I was at an eye doctor appointment for a second opinion about several diagnoses expected to result in my blindness. I just turned 30. In the waiting room a gentleman began to talk with me. I’m a very private person and was somewhat reluctant to engage in the conversation, but ended up telling him why I was...

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Strength and courage from Jaiden

I ran across this story of a 14 yr old boy, Jaiden Rogers who is suffering from a very rare disease called Stiff Skin Syndrome. I have been blessed by all his strength, determination and courage by what he is going through. He is an inspiration to those of us suffering with a disease and to many others. Stiff Skin...

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Foster Mom Making a difference

Just wanted to introduce myself & would love to share my story with you. I am the mother of six, three adopted through Foster Care. I found when taking these children in there were no books for them to relate to... So I found a talented illustrator who was in Foster Care herself- and wrote & self published with the...

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My mum

This is a simple story of learning to be kind. There were no gramd gestures, no paying for someone else's groceries or a ticket for the bus - we were barely getting by ourselves. But my mother taught me every day in simple ways that everyone deserves respect, empathy and kindness. Regardless of race, or class, or gender, or sexual...

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Helping Those in Need

My friend and I started this kind gesture 3 years ago. Where'd we save up our McDonald's coffee tabs, and Tim Hortons Roll Up The Rim winnings, and we give them to the homeless. This tradition normally takes place around the cold month and as we roam the streets, we give each one homeless individual that we come across our...

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If This Was You, Thank You!

My brother was a patient at MD Anderson Cancer Center, suffering from the brutal effects of leukemia relapse. He asked me for one of those heated vibrators to soothe the pain in his muscles. I looked at the big stores first, without success. Then I started checking every drugstore I could find. All the clerks said the same thing: "Come...

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My kind daughter

My daughter always stops and either buys a meal or brings gifts of necessities to the homeless on the street. She once gave $50 to a family that was stranded without gas to get home. I’m so proud of her!

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Going forward after a tragedy.

My name is jewels walter & after tragedy that left me with a club foot my youngest son & family took me out 2red robbins 4 dinner. I was not able 2 take my wheelchair so i was given the most terrible task of the day, walking n the Resgrant using a walking stick. & my son

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