This and That 3

2005-11-16 Posted at 10:58:45 PM

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. – Thomas Browne

Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. –William James

What Life is

Life is a race. Don’t whimper if the track is rough and the goal is distant. One day you shall reach it.

Life is a voyage. Don’t complain if the storms batter the hull or the winds tatter to shreds the sails. One day you shall come to your haven.

Life is growth., Don’t find fault if the seed lies smothered and submerged in the dark earth before it blooms and blossoms. One day you shall have your harvest.

Life is a pilgrimage. Don’t falter on the road through self-pity because stones cut your feet and leave your blood on the trail. One day you will come to Immanuel’s land.

The God who through the boundless sky guides the flight of the sparrow, who builds the blind bird’s nest, will see to it that in his good time you shall arrive.

--Joseph R. Sizoo

The real art of life consists in finding out what is the question to be solved, and the person who can find out what problem is to be solved is the person who really makes contributions to life. –Abbot Lawrence Lowell

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. –David Starr Jordan

RISK

Do not be afraid to shine.

This world needs what you have to give.

Open up the areas of your being;

expose them to yourself - to others.

You are valuable.

You are unique.

You have much to give.

Do not be afraid to give it.

As we risk ourselves, we grow.

Each new experience is a risk:

we can try, and maybe fail,

and as a result, grow -

or hold back and stagnate.

You have the potential

to be anything you want to be!

You are free to choose.

You are limited only by your fears.

Let your dreams take over,

fly with the eagles,

soar into life,

the world is waiting for you!

Copyright 1987

Fran Watson

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