Monday, September 29, 2025

1194. The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune - William Stafford



Wisdom is having things right in your life 

and knowing why.

If you do not have things right in your life

you will be overwhelmed:

you may be heroic, but you will not be wise.

If you have things right in your life

but do not know why,

you are just lucky, and you will not move

in the little ways that encourage good fortune.


The saddest are those not right in their lives

who are acting to make things right for others:

They act only from the self—

and that self will never be right:

no luck, no help, no wisdom.

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