Self-Love
I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are - particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.— Jonathan Carroll
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This one zeroes in on particularly. It is the kind of line that sounds simple until you slow down and read it twice. The second read is usually where it starts to mean something.
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.
Words like these do their best work when you stop rushing and let them sit for a minute.
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