William W. Purkey

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.

Robert Frost

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice is also great
And would suffice.

Unknown

I said a prayer for you today and I know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart although He spoke no word.
I didn’t ask for wealth or fame (I knew you wouldn’t mind)
I asked Him to send treasures of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He’d be near you at the start of each new day
To grant you health … [ Read more ]

William Shakespeare

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise.

Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky,
For put them side by side,
The one the other will include,
With ease, and you beside…

I dwell in possibility,
A fairer house than Prose,
More numerous of windows,
Superior of Doors…,

The souls unto itself,
Is an imperial friend,
Or the most agonizing spy,
An enemy could send…

John Greenleaf Whittier

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’

Edwin Markham

They drew a circle that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win.
We drew a circle that took them in.