Open my eye and let me see, The reason that I came to be. Whay is my purpose? why do I live,? What must I learn? what can I give? I am here for a reason , but I need to grow, What is the reason? I need to know. So open my eye and [...]
I get discouraged now and then When there are clouds of gray, Until I think about the things That happened yesterday. I do not mean the day before Or those of months ago, But all the yesterdays in which I had the chance to grow. I think of opportunities That I allowed to die, And [...]
Every single blade of grass, And every flake of snow— Is just a wee bit different … There’s no two alike, you know. From something small, like grains of sand, To each gigantic star All were made with THIS in mind: To be just what they are! How foolish then, to imitate— How useless to [...]
If I have hurt someone today With thought or word or deed, Or failed another in his need, I now repent. ********** If I can take those steps again, Tomorrow will I make amends And heal with love those hurts, I do this pledge. ********** And if a hurt has struck me deep And no [...]
You can do as much as you think you can, But you’ll never accomplish more; If you’re afraid of yourself, young man, There’s little for you in store. For failure comes from the inside first, It’s there if only we knew it, And you can win, though you face the worst, If you feel that [...]
The mind is a wonderous thing, It can make us cry or make us sing. It can bring us love or bring us hate, Whatever we choose is our fate. *********** It can being us joy or bring us pain, It can help us start all over again. It can take us high or it [...]
The day it was ours we thought from the first, as we marched with a full heart to war. The banners flew high as we followed the King with axe, lance and sword still to draw. I felt our elation, the cheers of the crowd, the shouts of the peasants below. The calls for the [...]
By night I think I see pass, before me in a dream. My lady who I do adore, floats on the silver stream, Of moonlight, mistress of the night. Whose form I cannot touch. O’ think of me tonight my love, for I do love thee much. I be a dream ,I will not last [...]
“With every strong thought, with every earnest longing For aught thou deemest needful to thy soul, Invisible vast forces are set thronging Between thee and that goal. ***** ‘Tis only when some hidden weakness alters And changes thy desire, or makes it less, That this mysterious army ever falters Or stops short of success. ***** [...]
“You can be what you will be; Let failure find it’s false content In that poor word, environment; But spirit scorns it, and is free. *********** It masters time; it conquers fate; It cows that boastful twister,Chance, And bide the tyrant Circumstance Uncrown, and fill a servant’s place. *********** The human Will, the force unseen, [...]
