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World Kindness Day Quotes 2019: Significance & History Facts Activities

World Kindness Day is an international observance which is celebrated every year on 13 November. The day is also observed in many countries, which comprises of Canada, Japan, Australia, Nigeria as well as United Arab Emirates. For the first time, Singapore celebrated the day in 2009. Other countries such as Italy and India also observed the day. In the UK, it is adjoined by David Jamilly, who was the co-founder of Kindness Day UK.

Happy World Kindness Day 2019

When is World Kindness Day this year?

This year in 2019, the World Kindness Day is going to be celebrated on 13th November 2019 (Wednesday).

 

World Kindness Day History

World Kindness Day was introduced back in the year 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, which was a coalition of nations’ kindness NGOs.

The Small Kindness Movement conducted a conference in the mid 1990s in order to invite participants from all over the globe to come as well as share their stories that are related to the kindness movements that they have begun in their own nations.

The conference was then later successful and an additional conference was held in the year 1997. These conferences then increased the World Kindness Movement. And at last, World Kindness Day was established in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement.

World Kindness Day 2019 Significance

World Kindness Day is celebrated in order to highlight good deeds in the community and to mainly focus on the positive power as well as the common thread of kindness which binds people all around the world.

Kindness is an essential part of the human condition which bonds the divides of race religion, politics, gender as well as zip codes. The main objective of celebrating this day is to highlight as well as encourage people, society, and the community to do good things as well as to be kind to everyone.

There are many approaches which are being made to the United Nations by the peak global body, the World Kindness Movement, in order to have World Kindness Day recognized officially and its members unanimously sign a Declaration of Support for World Kindness.

In addition to that, this day also offers a reminder that kindness quality has the power to be together as well as to make a kinder world where all people can live and work together.

World Kindness Day Quotes

‘No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.’ – Aesop

‘Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.’ – Dalai Lama

‘You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’ – Mark Twain

‘A tree is known for its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.’ – Saint Basil

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