Max Ehrmann: "Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the univ..."

Why This Quote Matters

Max Ehrmann takes something familiar, like yourself, and frames it just differently enough that you see it with new eyes. That shift is the point.

Send it to someone going through something hard. Not with a lecture attached. Just the words, and a thought that you were thinking of them.

Not every quote is meant for every person at every moment. If this one landed, it landed for a reason.