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How to resolve AdBlock issue? Today's Spoonful of Positive; Kindness
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A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
― Steve Maraboli,
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
― Horace Mann
“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
― Will Smith
“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
― Jana Stanfield
“I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich,
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