Random Acts Of Kindness (RAK) Day
Celebrated in the U.S. on February 17th
Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Day began in 2004 in New Zealand as a day to celebrate kindness and the whole 'pay it forward' mentality. The nonprofit "Random Acts of Kindness Foundation" was founded in 1995 in the U.S., headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The event is celebrated on September 1 in New Zealand; November 4 in Australia; and on February 17 in the United States.
A few ideas:
- Give someone a package of raisins as a "Raisin Pay"
- Pay postage for someone sending postcards, and mail them for free
- Shovel snow off of a handicapped person's driveway
- Pay the bus fare for the passenger behind you
- Buy extra at a grocery store and donate it to a food bank
- Take a gift to new neighbours and introduce yourself
- Wash someone else's car
- Take donuts to work
- Let a car into the traffic ahead of you
- Send an encouraging email to someone
- Compliment a work colleague on their work
- Post anonymous sticky notes with validating or uplifting messages around for people to find
- Help someone change a flat tire
- Buy flowers for someone
- Let someone go ahead of you in line
- Pay for the person behind you in the drive-thru
- Pay the meal for a couple in a restaurant as you're leaving
QuotaBillsKindness begets kindness. - Greek Proverb
Plans make dreams reality. - Susan Pace-Koch
Golden dreams make men awake hungry. - Proverb
Passion is easy; commitment is tough. - Celia Barbour
Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown
Emulsion: A mixture of oil and emotion. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Advertisers are the merchants of dreams. - Unknown
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. - Mason Cooley
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. - Earl Nightingale
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George Louis de Buffon
Don't look for perfection. That isn't the goal. - Ash Maurya
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten
Be of good courage and the Lord will strengthen your heart. - The Bible
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. - Oscar Wilde
Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. - Ovid
Enthusiasm is catching, so surround yourself with enthusiastic people. - Norman Vincent Peale
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley
Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that. - Heather O'Reilly
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn. - John Wesley
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. - R Buckminster Fuller
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it's a passion. - Gordon Ramsay
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. - Teri Garr
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. - Norman Cousins
A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman
Ask any decent person what he thinks matters most in human conduct: five to one his answer will be "kindness." - Kenneth Clark
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. - J G Ballard
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. - Wade Boggs