What People Are Saying
Amanda Palmer
Artist
Orly has put together a little gift box of 365 reminders; each one a digestible, practical little to-do item that will spark a change in the world. Kindness Boomerang is a little book that will make a big change, a little bite-sized bible of reminders for those who want to stay on the path of compassion.
Peter Scolari
Emmy Award Winning Actor
Orly Wahba's book 'Kindness Boomerang' is more than good philosophy, it is a box of spiritual tools - it is full of heart and decent thoughts, good will, and makes available a ready course of action for any given day. This is the work of a beautiful and evolved human being. When I grow up, I hope to be more like Orly Wahba. Get this book! Change the world a little bit at a time, and you yourself can change...
Bob Votruba
Found of One Million Acts of Kindness
Day by day, Orly lays out a blueprint of life for all of us. Kindness Boomerang is the foundation, and the daily actions of kindness and reflection are the brick and mortar, shaping a newly arisen creation, and who knows, possibly cultivating another wonder of the world inside you, for the benefit of mankind.
Chantel Adams
Founder/CEO Forever We, Inc
How is it possible that an idea as big as kindness could be contained in the pages of such a compact little book? Orly Wahba shares her passion for compassion in an easy-to-digest format that's doable for everybody. Her daily kindness challenges and reflections will help you open your heart, home, and community to all those who cross your path. May the Kindness Boomerang come back to you again and again!
Shannon Holly
New York City Radio Personality, Inventor Vino Diva
Now more than ever we need kindness in the world. That can only happen by realizing your personal power to be kind to yourself and others. Reading even just a daily passage from this book is like a vitamin for your soul, nourishing you to be the change you want to create.
Amanda Slavin
CEO and Founder, CatalystCreativ
Orly Wahba is one of a kind type of person, her energy and kindness is infectious and is felt through her book, Kindness Boomerang. Kindness Boomerang is a perfect book to inspire and ignite everyone around the world to be more kind to themselves and to each other.
David Green
Author of The Invisible Hand: Business, Success & Spirituality
Orly Wahba is a rare amazing person who selflessly walks the talk. Kindness Boomerang is a pocket gem full to the brim with inspiring daily anecdotes about kindness, positivity and never giving up. It’s a gentle reminder that we all have the power and responsibility to raise consciousness on our planet simply by being kind to others. Kindness spreads like wild-fire and even when we fall, this book helps us to get up and remember that kindness brings joy and happiness while ego and blind ambition brings misery, selfishness and unhappiness. Kindness Boomerang will appeal especially to the younger generation and those of us who realise that change must come from within us, which in turn will transform society peacefully from the grassroots upwards.
Dr Lydia Criss Mays
Author & Founder, See Beautiful
Kindness Boomerang fills a gap in the literature, giving youth and adults the gift of renewed kindness every day. Orly Wahba shares her gift of living kindness with authenticity that helps all readers see how easy it is to truly make the world a better place. You can read it day by day, or you can imagine sitting with a friend and a cup of tea while reading and growing inspired; either way, you'll find kindness really is like a boomerang. It always comes back to you and that is beautiful.
Jannan Poppen
Freelance Writer and Giving Coordinator for See Beautiful
Each page of Kindness Boomerang presents inspiring, tangible acts of kindness that are both simple and profound. Although Orly Wahba’s book is meant to be read daily, as a reminder to bring more kindness into each day, it’s hard not to read all 365 acts in one sitting. Every reader is sure to find something that resonates. Some acts, such as, “Search for the good in someone you may have decided to give up on,” challenge the reader to go to life-changing places. While others, such as “Give someone a hug,” may seem basic, but still have the potential to transform someone’s day. Complete with reflections and quotes, Kindness Boomerang helps readers reconnect with kindness in powerful ways.
"Mama Jan" Smith
Owner, Jan Smith Studios, Inc.
Imagine a world where kindness comes around again and again just because we are willing to repeat it. In KINDNESS BOOMERANG, Orly Wahba has written and compiled a gentle daily reminder to encourage us to be able to do just that...365 daily acts to help generate the boomerang of love and kindness. LOVE this book!
Julie Lythcott Haims
Author of the New York Times bestseller How to Raise an Adult
We are powerful beyond measure when we are kind—when, through simple kind acts extended to others we help a fellow human feel better and they in turn pay it forward. No one knows this better than kindness guru Orly Wahba. Her inspiring daily guide Kindness Boomerang is the tool we all need to tap into our goodness, unlock our kindness, and unleash that kind self upon a suffering world.
Marge Magner
Chairman – TEGNA, Inc. & Partner – Brysam Global Partners
In good times, when everything feels right, kindness seems to be part of the mix. You feel it, you see it and you know it’s happening around you. When times aren't so good, looking out at life can feel very heavy and difficult. Sometimes it hurts just to breathe. That’s exactly when kindness is the game changer, whether you are a receiver or giver, it is kindness that will help you breathe, think and do. Orly Wahba, in Kindness Boomerang, has made kindness an action word. It's not enough to have it in mind, it is something you do. And, the action itself, creates waves of energy and impact. Orly has made it clear to the reader, that the action and the effort have profound results. While daily life may be an excuse to fill our time with too much to do to do kindness, it is precisely daily life that presents us with so many opportunities to act, to do kindness. It only requires that we take action. No searching is necessary. I loved reading Kindness Boomerang, partly because I could hear Orly's voice urging me, the reader, to just get on with it ----the need to do kindness is all around us---but also because Orly calls on other voices, current and past, well known and not, to provide perspective and context. Albert Einstein's, "A fellow who does things that count doesn't usually stop to count them;" or Frederick Collins, "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say ‘Here I am’ and those who come into a room and say ‘Ah, there you are!" or Winston Churchill’s, "By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach," are examples of clear and meaningful nudges to the reader. Each page, one for every day of the year, is an opportunity to act. We can think about kindness as something we ought to do, or we can do it everyday in many ways to many people. Read Kindness Boomerang and you will experience your day differently and better. I'm quite certain that the people around you, the ones you know and the ones you have yet to meet, will have a better day too!
Monica Alicea
Gifted Education Specialist
“Kindness Boomerang” is a fantastic book by Orly Wahba. Orly shares practical and useful ideas with readers to reflect on each day. It is a wonderful way to start or end any day. As a teacher, it provides quick reading and suggestions I can pick up and share with my students. This book makes sharing and spreading kindness with others possible, and brings a smile to the face of all who read it.
Pastor Michelle Perry
Kitchen Manager/Chef of The Lantern House Homeless Shelter. And Youth Pastor for First United Methodist Church
Kindness Boomerang is a refreshing way to start each day. Orly Wahba beautifully guides her readers to help make this word a better, more beautiful and kinder place. What you will find along this kindness journey is how it makes you feel, which is only surpassed by those who are the recipients of the kindness you give and create. Just imagine a whole world, one person at a time, giving, receiving, giving, and receiving kindness. The more you throw out kindness, like a boomerang it comes right back to you and you can’t wait for the next day’s reading.
Rick Barry
Basketball Hall of Fame NBA Top 50 Player
I was absolutely blown away by Kindness Boomerang! I really find it difficult to comprehend how Orly was able to come up with so many wonderful Acts, along with pertinent Quotes and then a Reflection for each of those Acts for every day of the year. If everyone would follow the examples she has set forth, the world would be a much better place.
Steve Bartel
Assistant Program & Music Director, On-Air Personality, WKTU
I spent two entire flights round trip to the west coast reading this amazing, powerful and inspirational work. It's a guideline, a foundation with which to start to become a better and kinder person. I am inspired by Orly's work and her overall outlook on life.
Sunny Bates
Founder & CEO, Sunny Bates Associates
What a delight! A daily devotional full of simple and simply profound acts that one can take each and every day. Kindness Boomerang is a compact portable volume that makes developing a practice of Kindness within anyone's grasp. Each day is divided into ACT, Quote of inspiration and Reflection. The tone is light and straightforward and immanently doable.. thats the whole point. Kindness Boomerang is the ideal antidote for this time of anger, stress, and divisiveness.
Ttiffany Shlain
Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, and Webby Awards Founder
Kindness Boomerang is a fantastic guidebook to bring daily acts of kindness into your life. In my work, I think a lot about how focusing on a character strength, can indeed make it a stronger part of who you. Following the practices in this book, will make you kinder...which will ripple outward to many, many good things.
Marc Winn
Co-Founder of The Dandelion Project
This is the best bedside book that I have read in a long time. Every night before I go to sleep I read a few ideas for delivering acts of kindness to both myself and others. Not only are my dreams sweet but it inspires me to be a better human being the next day as well. Wonderful food for the soul.
Dr. Jen Riday
Women's Happiness Expert
Kindness Boomerang is a joy to read. It's a thoughtful, well-written dose of daily inspiration that will help you remember what's truly important. Starting each day with Orly's stories and reflections makes me a more patient mom and a better wife and friend. As a mom anxious to teach my family the art of kindness, I highly recommend Orly's book and everything else she's doing at Life Vest Inside.
Branden Harvey
Creator of Goodnewspaper and the host of the podcast Sounds Good
Orly's understanding of kindness as a means of empowerment permeates this book. She leaves me feeling inspired, aware of new ways to fill the world with good, and ready to be a part of something bigger than myself.
Rosie Acosta
Founder of RadicallyLoved.com and Host of Radically Loved Radio
Orly Wahba is a magical goddess. She is living her truth and inspiring all of us to do the same. Kindness is the most important quality we should own in this lifetime, and Orly’s passion, dedication, commitment and generosity is infectious. Thank you for showing us even as grown ups how to continue to DREAM BIG! Orly is a light in this world, I pray she keeps guiding us to brighten our own…
Ione Butler
Creator, ionebutler.com
Kindness Boomerang is a truly beautiful book. A daily source of inspiration and a reminder of how easy it is to be kind. I believe being of service to each other is what we're here for and I know that because it feels so good when we help others. I love the hundreds of creative ways Orly has come up with to connect us to our true purpose - to love and care for one another. Reading a page of this book each morning is the perfect start to your day and not just yours, all the people who's day you make with your act of kindness. Simply beautiful.
Andrea Owen
Kindness Boomerang is a book that everyone should own. Kindness may seem like a simple thing, but many of us don’t know how, don’t think we have time, and just forget to do it! This book breaks it down to simple, easy-to-use acts that anyone can do. Buy two copies, one for yourself and one as a gift.
Rachel Grunwell
Award-winning writer, yoga teacher & founder of Founder of Inspired Health
Orly is courageous in her vision and reminds us all (daily) that kindness fuels happiness - for everyone involved. Orly's work is so important right now. She’s a modern day wellness warrior much needed in this fragile world.