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1 Helping of Fremont County Fremont County March 20 June 30, Helping of Fremont County Fremont County March 20 June 30,

2 This year, 2018, marks 100 years of organized Extension work in Fremont County. From the beginning, the mission of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has been to help Iowans live their best lives. We can t think of a better way to improve lives than by spreading kindness far and wide! The Challenge For 100 days, beginning on March 20 and ending on June 30, you are challenged to perform a random act of kindness each day. What is a random act of kindness (RAK)? A RAK is something you do to benefit someone else without expecting anything in return. It might be as simple as offering a smile to a stranger, or as complicated as organizing a food drive. Use this book to record your RAK s, and have it signed at the Fremont County Extension office between July 1 st and July 31 st to earn a token of appreciation. Kindness is contagious! Start spreading it! This year, 2018, marks 100 years of organized Extension work in Fremont County. From the beginning, the mission of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has been to help Iowans live their best lives. We can t think of a better way to improve lives than by spreading kindness far and wide! The Challenge For 100 days, beginning on March 20 and ending on June 30, you are challenged to perform a random act of kindness each day. What is a random act of kindness (RAK)? A RAK is something you do to benefit someone else without expecting anything in return. It might be as simple as offering a smile to a stranger, or as complicated as organizing a food drive. Use this book to record your RAK s, and have it signed at the Fremont County Extension office between July 1 st and July 31 st to earn a token of appreciation. Kindness is contagious! Start spreading it!

3 June 30, 2018 I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn March 20, 2018 Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. Confucius June 28, 2018 In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. Karl Reiland March 22, 2018 Maybe you can t change the whole world, but you can surely change the world for someone. Unknown

4 March 21, 2018 Do small things with great love. Mother Teresa June 29, 2018 Acts of kindness are the blossoms of the soul. Anthony Douglas Williams March 23, 2018 When you can be the sunshine in someone's life, or the warm rain, why would you be the cold north wind? Robert Brault June 27, 2018 Be the reason someone smiles today. Unknown

5 June 26, 2018 We don t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another. Unknown March 24, 2018 There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness. Catherine Ryan Hyde June 24, 2018 Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again. Randa Abdel-Fattah March 26, 2018 A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. Og Mandino

6 March 25, 2018 The shortest distance between two people is a smile. Victor Borge June 25, 2018 Kindness, I ve discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer March 27, 2018 Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise. Steve Maraboli June 23, 2018 There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world. Bob Anderson

7 June 22, 2018 In a world where you can be anything, be kind. Unknown March 28, 2018 Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear. Mark Twain June 20, 2018 People will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou March 30, 2018 See the light in others and treat them as if that s all you see. De. Wayne Dyer

8 March 29, 2018 If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. Roy T. Bennett June 21, 2018 He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. Dante Alighieri March 31, 2018 Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy June 19, 2018 It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. Steve Maraboli

9 June 18, 2018 For it is in giving that we receive. Francis of Assisi April 1, 2018 When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be. Thomas S. Monson June 16, 2018 It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. Steve Maraboli April 3, 2018 Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Shannon L. Alder

10 April 2, 2018 The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi June 17, 2018 I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. Mother Teresa April 4, 2018 People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty. Maggie Stiefvater June 15, 2018 It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. John Joseph Powell

11 June 14, 2018 Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions. Roy T. Bennett April 5, 2018 Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran June 12, 2018 Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. Roy T. Bennett April 7, 2018 Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people. Roy T. Bennett

12 April 6, 2018 Nobody can help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan June 13, 2018 No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart. Kapten and Son April 8, 2018 Always pray to see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God. Unknown June 11, 2018 Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu

13 June 10, 2018 You re never too important to be nice to people. Jon Batiste April 9, 2018 The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde June 8, 2018 If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. Buddha April 11, 2018 No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Unknown

14 April 10, 2018 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Wendy Mass June 9, 2018 In a world full of people who couldn t care less, be someone who couldn t care more. Unknown April 12, 2018 Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. Seneca June 7, 2018 Our acts of kindness may only be brief lights in the night, but the smallest light is more powerful that the greatest darkness. Matt Mikalatos

15 June 6, 2018 How you make others feel says a lot about you. Unknown April 13, 2018 Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone. Robert Brault June 4, 2018 Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug or just a friendly pat on the back. Maya Angelou April 15, 2018 Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

16 April 14, 2018 Life isn t about getting and having, it s about giving and being. Kevin Kruse June 5, 2018 Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. Unknown April 16, 2018 The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service to others. Gandhi June 3, 2018 Even when you do not feel big hearted, you can give yourself permission to act that way. Willa Miller

17 June 2, 2018 Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa April 17, 2018 Kindness is just love with its work boots on. Unknown May 30, 2018 Just be kind. The act itself is free. And it s priceless. Lady Gaga April 19, 2018 Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up. Jesse Jackson

18 April 18, 2018 Remember there s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams June 1, 2018 You don t need a reason to help people. Unknown April 20, 2018 Kindness changes the world one heart at a time. Mary Davis May 29, 2018 How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it. George Elliston

19 May 28, 2018 What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pine April 21, 2018 Always help someone. You might be the only one who does. Unknown May 26, 2018 No one has ever become poor from giving. Anne Frank April 23, 2018 There is incredible value in being of service to others. Elizabeth Berg

20 April 22, 2018 As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn May 27, 2018 We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill April 24, 2018 Don t get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts. Unknown May 25, 2018 We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll

21 May 24, 2018 Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who received them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis April 25, 2018 The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do. Unknown May 22, 2018 No kind action ever stops with itself. Amelia Earhart April 27, 2018 One person can make a difference and everyone should try. John F. Kennedy

22 April 26, 2018 You can t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden May 23, 2018 Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. Unknown April 28, 2018 If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama May 21, 2018 What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

23 May 20, 2018 If you want more kindness in the world, put it there. Unknown April 29, 2018 You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. Pubilius Syrus May 18, 2018 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia May 1, 2018 Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. Frank A. Clark

24 April 30, 2018 A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. Amelia Earhart May 19, 2018 A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. Chinese Proverb May 2, 2018 Don t let those who take advantage of your generosity stop you from being generous. Unknown May 17, 2018 There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. Robert Brault

25 May 16, 2018 Love someone who doesn't deserve it. Unknown May 3, 2018 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 May 14, 2018 Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. May 5, 2018 Small kindnesses make you a bigger person. Terri Guillemets

26 May 4, 2018 Kind people are the best kind of people. Unknown May 15, 2018 The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. John E. Southard May 6, 2018 One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. Booker T. Washington May 13, 2018 Treat each person as if their heart was breaking. More often than not, you will be right. David Weedmark

27 May 12, 2018 Help people, even when you know they can t help you back. Unknown May 7, 2018 Be a rainbow in someone else s cloud. Maya Angelou May 10, 2018 In order to be remembered, leave nothing behind but goodness. Yogi Tea May 9, 2018 You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson

28 May 8, 2018 Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson May 11, 2018 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa