“Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate — you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 71.
Context: Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate — you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

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