Tag: motivation

Pass ~ Edmund Vance Cooke

Pass
 

 Edmund Vance Cooke
 

 Did somebody give you a pat on the back?
 Pass it on!
 Let somebody else have a taste of the snack,
 Pass it on!
 If it heightens your courage, or lightens your pack,
 If it kisses your soul, with a song in the smack,
 Maybe somebody else has been dressing in black;
 Pass it on!
 God gives you a smile, not to make it a yawn;
 Pass it on!
 Did somebody show you a slanderous mess?
 Pass it by!
 When a brook's flowing by, will you drink at the cess?
 Pass it by!
 Dame Gossip's a wanton, whatever her dress;
 Her sire was a lie and her dam was a guess,
 And a poison is in her polluting caress;
 Pass it by!
 Unless you're a porker, keep out of the sty.
 Pass it by!
 Did somebody give you an insolent word?
 Pass it up!
 'T is the creak of a cricket, the pwit of a bird;
 Pass it up!
 Shake your fist at the sea! Is its majesty blurred?
 Blow your breath at the sky! Is its purity slurred?
 But the shallowest puddle, how easily stirred!
 Pass it up!
 Does the puddle invite you to dip in your cup?
 Pass it up!
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Today’s Reflection: You’re Needed

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do. ~ Dorothy Day

Motivation Hack: Knocked Down? It May Be the Best Thing That Happened To You

“We tend to under-estimate the extent to which some kind of disadvantage or setback can, paradoxically, catapult people into higher achievement. Some people can turn the hurt and anger generated by a setback into a fierce will to succeed. By struggling against whatever forces they find pushing them down, they develop anti-gravity powers which lift them higher later on.” READ THE ENTIRE STORY AT THE BBC

Today’s Reflection: Never Quit

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Prayer ~ Max Ehrmann



 A Prayer 
 Max Ehrmann
 

 Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair
 overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me
 in the desolation of other times.
 May I still remember the bright hours that found me walking over
 the silent hills of my childhood, or dreaming on the margin of a quiet
 river, when a light glowed within me, and I promised my early God
 to have courage amid the tempests of the changing years.
 Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded
 moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit.
 Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be
 such as shall keep me friendly with myself.
 Lift up my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the
 stars.  Forbid that I should judge others lest I condemn myself.
 Let me not follow the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my
 path.
 Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever
 burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope.
 And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within
 sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for
 life, and for time’s olden memories that are good and sweet; and
 may the evening’s twilight find me gentle still.

Today’s Reflection: Life Is Waiting for You

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now. ~ Marcel Proust