Daily Compass

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, It will be happier.”
―Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is your hope for the year to come?

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount

When have you improved your trip by getting lost?

So many of the bad things that happen to us are simply accidents. So are most of the bad things that we cause to happen to other people. Accidents happen. The crucial question is how you respond when they do.

What do you do when you have accidentally harmed someone?

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly and most underrated agent of human change.”
–Bob Kerry

When has someone’s unexpected kindness changed you?

“That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it.”
― Mark Twain

What have you discovered in yourself because circumstances demanded it?