365 Days of Kindness Sample Pages

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Becky Goddard-Hill

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KINDNESS is POWERFUL , it can HEAL , HELP, ENCOURAGE and SUPPORT. And, whether that KINDNESS is shown to yourself, other PEOPLE or THE PLANET, it makes a HUGE and positive DIFFERENCE in YOUR LIFE.

Are you ready to spread kindness every day of the year?

Try out the simple activities throughout your day or the whole week through and read the inspirational quotes all about being kind. The affirmations are positive statements that you might want to repeat to yourself or say aloud to strengthen your belief in them.

The book is perfect for opening at the beginning of your day, before you go to bed or anytime!

SELF KINDNESS

A ‘self-kindness’ is an act you do to support, encourage or soothe yourself. It is important you build self-kindness into every day and then when times are tough you know exactly how to make yourself feel better.

Can you create a little diary for the week with a ‘self-kindness’ plotted in for each day? You could include:

Watching my favourite TV show Phoning grandma Doing some baking

Having a lovely long lie in Listening to some top tunes

23 I talk to myself with love.

An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.

Be

Emma, Emma

kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

I always DESERVE the best TREATMENT because I never put up with any other.

Misha Collins

I am kind to MYSELF.

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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Maxwell Maltz

Kindness to Others

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Do something kind today for every person who lives in your home – it could be a tiny thing but think of each person and do something that you know will make them smile.

I treat others as I would like them to TREAT ME.

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of HAPPINESS.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

That’s WHAT I consider true GENEROSITY: you give YOUR all, and yet you ALWAYS feel as if it costs you NOTHING.

Simone de Beauvoir

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You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others.

Sam Levenson

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Martin Luther King Jr.

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There are SOULS in this WORLD who have the GIFT of finding JOY everywhere and LEAVING it behind them when they GO.

Frederick William Faber

I am KIND in many DIFFERENT WAYS.

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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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Booker T. Washington

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

William Shakespeare

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Take some timetoday to reflect back on the year and the powerful impact of kindness. What act of kindness towards you really made a difference? And what act of kindness that you did had the biggesteffect?

“KINDNESS is FREE, sprinkle it EVERYWHERE.”

Acknowledgements

7 The Grinch, © Universal Pictures (2018)

26 26 Austen, Jane, Emma, J Murray (1815)

142 142 Barrie, James M., The Little White Bird, Hodder & Stoughton (1902)

167 167 Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Jonathan Cape (1941)

171 171 Dr. Seuss, The Lorax, Random House (1971)

194 194 Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Random House (1990)

262 262 Ascher, Ken and W illiams, Paul, ‘A Little Bit of Love’, A&M Records (1974)

265 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, © Walt Disney Pictures (1937)

333 Hercules, © Walt Disney Pictures (1997)

349 349 Kilcher, Jewel, ‘Hand s’, Atlantic (1998)