George Matthew Adams

About the strangest thing in the world is this — that though we are every last one of us exactly human, still about 90 percent of us are shy and afraid of the world and each other.

I wonder why it is? The world was made for us all. And we were made — every one of us — to be friends and to like one another. The world is big, and there is so much room for laughter and happiness, yet, how funny we are! If we dislike some particular human, we say so — generally to someone else. We call him names—and wonder why he is not like us.

Well, the biggest reason why he is not like us, is probably because we are not like him. We are all about the same in feeling and in desire.

We long for and work toward about the same things. We are all — just human — after all. I wish we knew each other better. I wish we were more tolerant, more generous, more helpful, more desirous to give instead of to get.

I would that everybody's business belonged to us only in so far as we could help and love and make it easier and more beautiful for them. The greatest business in the world is smile-making. And the greatest profession, smile-giving.

People hide behind hate and meanness — but never behind smiles! So let's do what we can today to light up the world — most of all, our particular place of work and standing —with SMILE-shine.

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