Poetry
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Risk Taking is Free
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool;
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental;
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams
before the crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try is to risk failure.
But risk must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life
is to risk nothing
The person who risks nothing, does nothing,
has nothing and is nothing;
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
but they simply cannot learn,
feel change, grow, love, Live
Chained by their certitude, they are a slave,
they have forfeited freedom;
Only the person who risks is free.
Author Unknown
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~BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART~
Believe in your heart
That something wonderful
Is about to happen.
Love your life.
Believe in your own powers,
and your own potential,
and in your own inate goodness.
Wake every morning
with the awe of just being alive.
Discover each day the magnificent,
awesome beauty in the world.
Explore and embrace life
in yourself and in everyone
you see each day.
Reach within to find
your own specialness.
Amaze yourself and
rouse those around you
to the potential of each new day.
Don't be afraid to admit
that you are less than perfect;
this is the essence of your humanity
Let those who love you help you.
Trust enough to be able to take.
Look with hope
to the horizon of today,
for today is all we truly have.
Live this day well.
Let a little sun out as well as in.
Create your own rainbows
Be open to all your possibilities;
all possibilities and Miracles.
Always believe in Miracles
*Author Unknown*
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Forgiveness of oneself is essential to peace of mind.
As hard as we try and as positive as our intent may be,
we're going to lose our way or lose our bearings from time to time.
Or, we're going to get "off track" or lose perspective. We're human
and we're going to lose it every once in a while--or far more often than that.
That's okay. Let it go. Forgive yourself and your shortcomings and start again.
Each moment is newly created and is a brand new opportunity for love.
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"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet
as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness, and
understanding you can muster,
and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again."
- Og Mandino
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No man/woman is worth your tears and the only one
who is, will never make you
cry. If you love someone, put their name in a
circle, instead of a heart,
because hearts can break, but circles go on forever.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what
you say. Best friends
listen to what you don't say.
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I
wouldn't jump with them, I'd
be at the bottom to catch them.
"Don't frown, because you never know who's falling
in love with your smile!"
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder
battle." Plato
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a
day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to
forget someone."
"Enthusiasm is contagious. You could start an
epidemic!"
Silent Tears
A thunderous silence
breaks through my thoughts.
What was once many great ideas
is now a triumph, lost.
Baffling words tumble through my mind.
Reflections of darkness hover.
A disturbing peacefulness beckons to me,
and inside myself, I take cover.
What would it be like to stay there forever?
To be lost in all my cares?
From the inside, looking out -
I cry silent tears.
by Heather Loughton
Reality
Reality is that slap in the face
When you think you have the world by the tail
And life seems to be moving at your own pace
When you feel like there is no way you can fail.
Reality is there to open your eyes
When you find you were walking with them closed
And it shows you a sight that can surely make you cry
Because with reality, it shows you what you already know.
Reality breaks a person's heart and soul
And destroys dreams and hopes that a person feels
The truth and only truth is reality's only goal
And it doesn't care whose world that it might kill.
Reality keeps me in a state of mind
That I know it has complete control
But sometimes my dreams overtake reality I find
And love lives for a while in my heart and soul.
Reality is not fair.
Reality does not care.
by Margaret
