“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.”
Rebecca Solnit
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You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Emerson is talking about timing. Thank the people in your life while they can still hear it.
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