All it takes to know a life of Purpose is to have the courage to reach out to someone in those moments when you would otherwise not — to do an anonymous good deed for a friend when you are exhausted; to smile at a stranger when you are afraid; to forgive an enemy when you are angry.

All it takes is for you to open your heart or your hands (or even your hair) and give another person a soft place to rest their worries (see the picture).

For it is these small deeds that change the world …

It is these small deeds that are not really small at all.

“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. You need not grasp for the stars – simply engage life’s common work as it comes to you.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson