Living is a contact sport: rough-and-tumble, up-and-down, you're liable to get hit and fall. Sometimes, a meme can help pick you up. These memes, certified wholesome by the posters at Reddit's /r/wholesomememes, promise to spread goodwill, joy, and kindness. They emphasize the times when people act with kindness and lead with love. They show that despite it all, people can be pretty cool.

A lot of these wholesome memes are also about gratitude: recognizing how good it feels to hold what is already here, and be happy with what's before you. On an internet that's often defined by chaos and clutter, these wholesome memes offer an island of calm to rest on when the sea gets too choppy.

So, whether it's to indulge your inner child or to let yourself go into mushy sentimentality for a minute, these 23 wholesome memes might be just what the doctor ordered. Rest, scroll, and blossom: the bounty of the world is never ending.