365 Days of Kindness Sample Pages

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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

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

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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.

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

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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

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I talk to 23 myself with love.

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An empty lantern 24 provides no light.

Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.

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I am kind to

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

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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.

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

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

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GENEROSITY: you give YOUR

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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.

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Life’s most persistent and 34 urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

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361 There are SOULS

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

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I am KIND in many 362 DIFFERENT WAYS.

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Those who are happiest are those who do the 363 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 time today 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 biggest effect?

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Acknowledgements 7 The Grinch, © Universal Pictures (2018)

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14 2 Barrie, James M., The Little White Bird, Hodder & Stoughton (1902) 142

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16 7 Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Jonathan Cape (1941) 167 17 1 Dr. Seuss, The Lorax, Random House (1971) 171

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194 Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Random House (1990) 2 6 2 Ascher, Ken and Williams, Paul, ‘A Little Bit of Love’, A&M Records (1974) 262

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2 6 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, © Walt Disney Pictures (1937) 265

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3 3 3 Hercules, © Walt Disney Pictures (1997) 333 3 4 9 Kilcher, Jewel, ‘Hands’, Atlantic (1998) 349

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