“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 (via browndresswithwhitedots)(Source: jonathancarroll.com, via theyellowdoorpaperie)
“And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that
nobody ever believed how hard we tried.”
From the poem “Drunks”, by Jack McCarthy (via thatkindofwoman)(Source: andrewgibby, via thatkindofwoman)
“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.”
Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours (2002)(Source: anuclearmystic, via ignitelight)
“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
Ernest Hemingway (via -killerqueen)(Source: seabois, via images-rush-my-mind)
