Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.