Sunshine

When a bit of sunshine hits ye,

After the passing of a cloud,

When a fit of laughter gits ye

An’ yer spine is feeling proud,

Don’t fergit to up and fling it

At a soul that’s feelin’ blue,

For the minite that ye sling it

It’s a boomerang to you.

                                                                        Captain Jack Crawford

 

 

Smile

Don’t expect life to smile at you unless you smile first.

                                                                        Anon

 

 

Keep or Give Away?

That which you keep is lost but that which you give away is yours forever.

                                                                        Anon

 

 

Beyond your Powers

“Let him who would have an experience of God take on a job that is beyond his powers and then pray.”

     Anon

 

 

Life Energy

Life energy sleeps in the mineral, dreams in the plant, awakes in the animal and becomes conscience in Man.

Oriental Saying

 

 

I Disagree

I disagree with everything you have said but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Anon

 

Moving

I find a great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

                                                                        Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

What will people say?

In all we do almost the first thing we think about is what will people say?  And nearly half the trouble and worries of life may be traced to our own anxiety on this score.

Anon

 

 

No sorrow

Conquer your foe by force and you add to his enmity; by love, and you reap no after sorrow.

                                                                        The Budda

 

 

 

Slow and Steady

Slow me down Lord, Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.

Steady my hurried pace with the vision of the eternal reach of time.  Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.  Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the smoothing music of the streams that live in memory.  Lift my eyes in to the branches of the towering trees, let me know that they grow slowly and well.  Slow me down Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow towards the stars of my greater destiny.  Amen

Anon