“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 (born 1949);
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