Nobody planned to be in the right place at the right time. The railway worker who found a lost cat on the tracks wasn’t looking for one. The man who stopped his scooter in the mountains of India ...

Among the many points for assessing happiness around the world, like sharing meals with others and family bonds, researchers for the 2025 World Happiness Report looked closely at acts of kindness.

Taylor Fisher and her best friend Taylor Paszek wrote encouraging notes, attached them to flowers, and put them on ...

A Columbus Dispatch reporter reflects on their first four months covering the Kindness beat. The reporter highlights stories ...

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On Nov. 13, we marked the 27 th year of "World Kindness Day," a chance to pause, reflect and ask: How does kindness really change lives? We then invited you, our readers, to share acts of kindness ...

Regularly volunteering and engaging in other acts of kindness can boost not just mental health but also physical health and longevity, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...

Laurel Sims-Stewart, a counselor who works with children and adults, says when it comes to giving, our kids look to parents and caregivers not only to care for them, but as examples for relationships.

“It’s easy to focus on the methods of civic participation that make news, and hard to imagine the importance of the things we do each day with our own minds and hearts,” she wrote. But our everyday ...

A Wake County mother says on the worst day of her life she experienced the best acts of kindness. WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Wake County mother says on the worst day of her life, she experienced ...