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Donna Cameron

@donnacameron.bsky.social
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I write and speak about kindness. Author of A YEAR OF LIVING KINDLY. Former non-profit exec. We can change our lives and repair the world through kindness. ayearoflivingkindly.com

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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 21h
“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” ~Aldous Huxley #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Your empathy will be your salvation. When in doubt, run toward kindness." ~Tennessee Williams #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” ~Christopher Germer #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alarmingly true.... “I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity, and our mastery. Not of nature—but of ourselves.” ~Rachel Carson #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?" ~Tom Hanks #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Civilization is the long process of learning to be kind." ~Jennifer James #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.” ~Anne Lamott #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“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 #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Any kind gesture which pulls another living soul out of despair is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Michael Xavier #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.” ~E.B. White #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If only more people would remember this important truth: “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” ~Ryan Freitas #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“When your mind changes, the world changes. When we respond differently to the world, the world responds differently to us.” ~Mojo Sam #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors." ~B.B. King #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? ~Langston Hughes #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want it to be. More than ever before we, as a society, need to renew a commitment to truth telling.” ~bell hooks #Justice #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle." ~Charles Glassman #Kindness #KindnessMatters #quotes #photography
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ~Albert Schweitzer #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“We can never elevate ourselves by putting someone else down.” #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” ~Booker T. Washington #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All is fine, Michael. As I mentioned (I think), I don't spend much time on Bluesky. I post a meme, look around for a bit, and then exit 'til the next day. I'm not very social on social media.
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ~Mark Twain #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.” ~Jack Kerouac #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” ~Samuel Johnson #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” ~L.R. Knost #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members." ~Coretta Scott King #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes #Bloomscrolling
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” ~Albert Einstein #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." ~Fred Rogers #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.” ~Julia Butterfly Hill #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Kindness does not only help the person who receives it. It repairs the person who offers it." Such a powerful concept! www.forbes.com/councils/for...
forbes.com
Kindness Isn't Softness—It May Be The Leadership Skill That Saves You
Every time we coach instead of criticize, or when we extend grace while holding the line on accountability, we reinforce why we chose to lead.
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The way we live our life is our spiritual practice—no more, no less, nothing but, nothing else.” ~Robert Corin Morris #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This: “We're all just walking each other home.” ~Ram Dass #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” ~Jean Jacques Rousseau #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.” ~Wayne Muller #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully-equipped.” ~Carl Sagan #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” ~Fred Rogers #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” ~William Faulkner #Justice #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.” ~Kevin Heath #Kindness #ChooseKindness #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Our greatest gift is to allow ourselves to feel alive in this sea, moving with the tides of lovingkindness as they move into us, through us, out of us into others, only to return again and again.” ~Wayne Muller #Kindness #KindnessMatters #quotes #photography
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Theodore Isaac Rubin #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"It takes courage to be kind." ~Maya Angelou #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” ~Eric Hoffer #Kindness #KindnessMatters #quotes #photography
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you can.” ~John Wesley #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage—the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.” ~Wayne Muller #Kindness #KindnessMatters #quotes #photography
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Kindness. Easy to do. Easy not to do. Choose the latter, no one will notice. Choose the former and lives may change.” ~Julian Bowers Brown #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Where decency triumphs, kindness is smiling over its shoulder.” ~Ellen Notbohm #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Tell me what you pay attention to, and I will tell you who you are.” ~Jose Ortega y Gasset #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Appreciate the little things, for one day you may look back and find they were the big things.” ~Anonymous #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #Bloomscrolling #quotes
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Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ~Aesop #Kindness #KindnessMatters #photography #quotes #Bloomscrolling
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