leftunspoken's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Play nice, hold hands, smile The following explains (far more eloquently than ever I could) what I believe with everything in me to be true: "Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, ... Because in every day of your life there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness...reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away." "Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will." "All human lives are so profoundly and itricately entwined - those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands." "Therefore after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength - to the very survival of the human tapestry." "Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day." Dean Koontz 3:19 p.m. - February 10, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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