Today is Thursday, July 23rd, 2026; Karen's Korner #5654

Installment #2:

A birthday gift to me was a Chicken Soup for the Soul book titled “Kindness Matters, 101 feel good stories of compassion & paying it forward”, compiled by Amy Newmark.

I didn’t read it like a novel, but a story or two each evening before going to sleep. Each of the hundred-plus-stories kicked off with someone’s saying.

Here are a handful of those sayings; six more of them:

"Imagine what our real neighborhoods
would be like if each of us offered,
as a matter of course,
just one kind word to amother person."
~Mr. Rogers
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"No one is useless in this world
who lightens the
burdens of another."
~ Charles Dickens
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"Carry out a random act of kindness,
with no expectation of reward,
safe in the knowledge
that one day someone might
do the same for you."
~ Princess Diana
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Seeing the world
through the eyes of a child
is the purest joy
that anyone can experience."
~ Constance Simmer
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"Because that's what kindness is.
It's not doing something for
someone else
because they can't,
but because you can."
~ Andrew Iskander
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"For it is in giving
that we receive."
~ Francis of Assisi
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"But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will produce this kind of fruit in us:  love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control...."
~ Galatians 5:22 & 23 LAB

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