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World Kindness Day 2022: History, Significance, And All That You Need To Know About

This day was intended to foster compassion among people and to emphasise the value of gestures of kindness, generosity, and goodness in maintaining a positive social climate.

New Delhi: World Kindness Day is celebrated every year on November 13 to promote kindness throughout the world. It is honoured in many nations, including the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. This day was intended to foster compassion among people and to emphasise the value of gestures of kindness, generosity, and goodness in maintaining a positive social climate.

World Kindness Day 2022: History

The World Kindness Movement first proposed World Kindness Day as a day of observance. The organisation was registered as an official NGO under Swiss legislation in 2019, but its history dates back to a 1997 convention in Tokyo. An array of institutions and associations from nations such as Australia, Thailand, the United States, and the United Kingdom gathered at this conference to support kindness in society.

World Kindness Day 2022: Significance

Even though our world is busy and self-centred these days, we occasionally witness acts of compassion that warm our hearts. Kindness and doing good for others are crucial moral values to instil. On World Kindness Day, everyone is reminded that kindness, expressed through words and deeds, has the power to change the world.

World Kindness Day 2022: Quotes 

  • Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind. – Henry James
  • A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. – Amelia Earhart
  • The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. ― Mahatma Gandhi
  • 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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