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Princess Diana - "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone might do the same for you." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Princess Diana, who was known worldwide for her
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  compassion and humanitarian work.
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  She once said carry out a random act of kindness with no
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  expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day
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  someone might do the same for you.
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  Random expectation and might. 3 words that describe how this
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  works. Random means it's not
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  calculated, not strategic, not because someone deserves it or
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  earned it, just because you can. Expectation, or rather no
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  expectation, means you don't do it for thanks, for recognition,
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  for payback. You do it and walk away.
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  And might means there is no guarantee someone might help you
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  one day. Or they might not.
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  And that's not the point. Diana lived this.
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  She held hands with AIDS patients when people were
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  terrified to touch them. She walked through minefields to
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  draw attention to their danger. She comforted the dying and the
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  forgotten. Not for reward, not for
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  recognition, though she got it anyways because she believed in
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  creating a chain of kindness that ripples outward.
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  Here's the beautiful thing about random acts of kindness.
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  They're contagious. When someone experiences
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  unexpected kindness, they're more likely to pass it on.
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  Not to you, necessarily. To someone else who passes it to
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  someone else who passes it to someone else, and so on and so
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  on and so on. You start a chain reaction.
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  You'll never see most of it. You'll never know how far it
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  goes. But it goes, and here's Diana's
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  faith. If enough people do this, if
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  enough chains of kindness are moved through the world,
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  eventually one will reach you when you need it.
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  Not because you earned it, not because someone owes you, but
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  because someone, somewhere continue to chain that you might
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  have started years ago without knowing.
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  So here's the question, what random act of kindness could you
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  do today? Not for reward, not for
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  recognition, just to start a chain because one day someone
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  might do the same for you, or they might not, but the chain
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  keeps moving. Either way, start 1 today.
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  That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.