I'm remembering the recent story of the family out for dinner, saw someone looking a bit down, invited him to sit with them, he demurred, but thanked them for their kindness as he was leaving ...and paid for their dinner. Sometimes (often?) a kindness offered begets others I talked to a few in the grocery store(s) just now, there were some smiles, not much more or less a shrug of the shoulders. If we can put a smile on the face of someone, it often adds joy to the day. Usually when I make that comment following a smile, people agree. ole joyful

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.” ― Thomas Edison

And then there is this one along the same thought by Oscar Wilde. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken" I liked it so much that I made my own sign of it to hang in my kitchen.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself. Leo Tolstoy in A Calendar of Wisdom