People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some

true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.

--Mother Teresa

THERE'S A HOLE IN MY SIDEWALK

I walk down the street

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,

I fall in.

I am lost...I am hopeless.

It isn't my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,

I pretend I don't see it.

I fall in again.

I can't believe I am in the same place.

But, it still isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,

I see it is there.

I still fall in...it's a habit.

My eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk,

I walk around it.

I walk down another street...

-Portia Nelson

WALK A LITTLE PLAINER DADDY

"Walk a little plainer, Daddy,"

Said the little boy so frail,

"I'm following in your footsteps,

And I don't want to fail."

"For sometimes your steps are very plain,

Sometimes they're hard to see;

Walk a little plainer, Daddy,

For you are leading me."

"For sometimes I am tempted,

I don't know what to do,

Walk a little plainer, Daddy,

For I must follow you."

"Sometime when I grow up,

You are like what I want to be,

And I will have a little boy,

Who will want to follow me."

I would want to lead him right,

And have him to be true,

Walk a little plainer, Daddy,

For we must follow you."

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads divided in a yellow wood,

and sorry I could not travel both.

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

It's time to bring on some HURT!

I'm the best there is at what I do,

But what I do best isn't very nice.

I'm here on business; to hunt, to kill.

Like I said- what I do best.

-Wolverine

You may be able to get under my skin,

but you can never penetrate my rock!

-Hulk to the Thing

I AM

I am the dawn
I bring the morning joy
My word is love
And the end of fear

I am the light
I bring you forever peace
I am within you
And in my presence
There is only truth

Seek no more, delay no more
I am here and now
And in the stillness
Of your heart
I am, I am, I am

-The Dead Sea Scrolls

LIONS OR GAZELLES?

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows it must run faster than the fastest

lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up.

It knows it must outrun the slowest

gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or gazelle:

when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Things may come to those who wait,

but only the things left by those who hustle.

You cannot teach
a person anything...

You can only help
them find it
within themselves!

-Galileo