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Having your favourite coffee with your favourite person while watching your favourite view is precious. Days like these give me hope for a better future and strength to carry on. There’s always hope no matter how shitty circumstances seem and you always have some strength left in you no matter how many times you’ve been stabbed. Keep faith and carry on.

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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….