GRATITUDE

IT sounds like a profound truth from a religious text. “If we should deal out justice only in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous and, in the end, more profitable. It gains gratitude for us, and love.”

If those words were spoken by some divine power we might appreciate them, but feel justified in failing to live up to them. After all, we are not divine. But they were writte by Mark Twain.

And, if a man can think them, surely the rest of us can live them.