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"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed more easily because you lived...This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own." Edwin Markham "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with you old nonsense. "Ralph Waldo Emerson "Public will is when the right thing to do becomes consensus and people generally start expressing the convictions they share in everything they do. So I don’t care if you carry a banner or if you stand near the back. You can yell into a megaphone if you like, or you can listen carefully if that’s more your style. You don’t need a soap box to be a good citizen. You just need to be part of the public will to make life on this planet a little bit better. " William H. Gates Sr Address at University Of Washington

Favorite saying

• ""There is a destiny that makes us brothers;none goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own." I shall not pass this way again "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it NOW. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Grellet, 1773 -1855 "If you have a library and a garden, you have all you need" Roman Scholar Cicero's adage "....There is a wind behind every one of us that takes us through our lives. We never see it, we can’t command it, we don’t even know its purpose...." Father Flynn"Doubt" Death Be Not Proud Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost over throw Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure - then, from thee much more must flow; And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones and soul's delivery. Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men, And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more. Death thou shalt die. John Donne 1572-1631 "My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: ‘Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’ Robert F. Kennedy"