Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; 

only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate; 

only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther King

Attention to Health

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

~ Plato

Love is Composed

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~ Aristotle

Dreams Show You

Dreams show you that you have the power...

~ Helen Schucman

Everything in Life

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. 

So suffering must become Love. 

That is the mystery.

~ Katherine Mansfield

A Man Can be Happy

A man can be happy with any woman, 

as long as he does not love her.

~ Oscar Wilde

Men Always Want To Be

Men always want to be a woman's first love - 

women like to be a man's last romance.

~ Oscar Wilde

When You Take Charge of Your Life

When you take charge of your life, 

there is no longer need to ask permission 

of other people or society at large. 

When you ask permission, 

you give someone veto power over your life.

~ Geoffrey F. Abert

Ability May Get You to the Top

Ability may get you to the top, 

but it takes character to keep you there.

~ John Wooden

A Faithful Friend

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

~ Apocrypha

All Our Dreams Can Come True

All our dreams can come true, 

if we have the courage to pursue them.

~ Walt Disney

The Difference Between a Boss and a Leader

The difference between a boss and a leader: 

a boss says, 'Go!' - 

a leader says, 'Let's go!'

~ E. M. Kelly

Clouds Come Floating

Clouds come floating into my life, 

no longer to carry rain or usher storm, 

but to add color to my sunset sky.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

A Kiss

A kiss may ruin a human life.

~ Oscar Wilde

Always Forgive Your Enemies

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

~ Oscar Wilde

Life is A Dream

Life is a dream for the wise, 

a game for the fool, 

a comedy for the rich, 

a tragedy for the poor.

~ Shalom Aleichem

Do Every Act

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Love All

Love all, but trust a few.

~ William Shakespeare

Washington

Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; 

High-poised example of great duties done 

Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn 

As life's indifferent gifts to all men born; 

Dumb for himself, unless it were to God, 

But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, 

Tramping the snow to coral where they trod, 

Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content; 

Modest, yet firm as Nature's self; unblamed 

Save by the men his nobler temper shamed; 

Not honored then or now because he wooed 

The popular voice, but that he still withstood; 

Broad-minded, higher-souled, there is but one 

Who was all this and ours, and all men's --- Washington.

~ James Russell Lowell

Abraham Lincoln

[April 26, 1865]

Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare,

Gentle and merciful and just!

Who, in the fear of God, didst bear

The sword of power, a nation’s trust!

In sorrow by thy bier we stand,

Amid the awe that hushes all,

And speak the anguish of a land

That shook with horror at thy fall.

Thy task is done; the bond are free:

We bear thee to an honored grave,

Whose proudest monument shall be

The broken fetters of the slave.

Pure was thy life; its bloody close

Hath placed thee with the sons of light,

Among the noble host of those

Who perished in the cause of Right.

~ William Cullen Bryant

Lincoln

Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound,

And all her ways were filled with clam'rous sound.

Wailed loud the South with unremitting grief,

And wept the North that could not find relief.

Then madness joined its harshest tone to strife:

A minor note swelled in the song of life.

'Till, stirring with the love that filled his breast,

But still, unflinching at the right's behest,

Grave Lincoln came, strong handed, from afar --

The mighty Homer of the lyre of war.

'Twas he who bade the raging tempest cease,

Wrenched from his harp the harmony of peace,

Muted the strings, that made the discord,Wrong,

And gave his spirit up in thund'rous song.

Oh mighty Master of the mighty lyre,

Earth heard and trembled at thy strains of fire:

Earth learned of thee what Heav'n already knew,

And wrote thee down among her treasured few!

~ Paul Laurence Dunbar

Captain Jinks

I'm Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, 

I feed my horse on corn and beans, 

And sport young ladies in their teens, 

Though a captain in the army. 

I teach young ladies how to dance, 

How to dance, how to dance, 

I teach young ladies how to dance, 

For I'm the pet of the army. 

CHORUS: 

Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, 

I feed my horse on corn and beans, 

And often live beyond my means, 

Though a captain in the army. 

I joined my corps when twenty-one, 

Of course I thought it capital fun; 

When the enemy came, of course I run, 

For I'm not cut out for the army. 

When I left home, mama she cried, 

Mama she cried, mama she cried, 

When I left home, mama she cried: 

"He's not cut out for the army." 

The first time I went out to drill, 

The bugle sounding made me ill; 

Of the battle field I'd had my fill, 

For I'm not cut out for the army. 

The officers they all did shout, 

They all did shout, they all did shout, 

The officers they all did shout: 

"Why, kick him out of the army."

~ Anonymous