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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
 

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Create goodness

You can’t solve all the problems of the world. What you can do is create goodness right where you are.

Create goodness in the way you live, with the people you encounter. Create goodness with the problems you solve, with your kindness, with your positive presence.

As entertaining as it might be to fantasize about, the world doesn’t really need a dramatic superhero. Life always has, and will continue to benefit from good people living good lives of purpose and integrity.

A small kindness has the capacity to reverberate endlessly through life. And there’s always some small kindness you can offer.

Beyond that, you can have the audacity to be happy every now and then, to enjoy life, to share the joy. You can delight in the beauty, wonder, mystery, and challenge of the universe in which you exist.

Life’s enduring goodness is made in the countless ordinary moments, not in some grandiose scheme. Make some more of that goodness right now.

— Ralph Marston

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