"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."
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Jonathan Carroll (via rainydaysandblankets)
Always.
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"Falling in love is part of her daily routine. She falls in love with little details that catch her eye during the day. A half empty beer bottle under a park bench. One single, little plant growing from a brick wall. Details like that stay with her for a long time, because of what they made her feel when she first saw them. In some odd way they make her feel life is worth living. They make her realize art is everywhere. They make her realize everyone and everything has a story. How did that bottle get there? Who left it there without finishing it? They make her realize she can see beauty in ugliness and struggle. There are days she falls in love with her own struggle, with her sadness, her doubts, her fears. There are days she falls in love with her problems, her mistakes, with all that went wrong. Because there is such beauty in struggle. Such beauty and such depth and such hope. Are you thankful for your struggles, stranger?"
- Random people: The Beauty of Struggle
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