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Set yourself a goal

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Set yourself a goal Let your aim be very high You are so very young-yet so old- Never say “I can’t” say “I will try” [Link to the book]

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Give yourself a chance 

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Give yourself a chance  Give yourself the time Cross the river Where you are Rainer Maria Rilke [Link to the book]

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The spring sun

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The spring sun, silent Creeps like a little thief Between the buds and branches And gilds the new born leaf Rainer Maria Rilke [Link to the book]

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Dreams are renewable

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Dreams are renewable  No matter what our age or conditions There are still untapped possibilities Within us And new beauty waiting to be born! Dale E. Turner [Link to the book]

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Make haste to be kind

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Life is short And we have not much time For gladdenings! The lives of others Who are travelling  The dark road with us O be swift to love  Make haste to be kind Henri-Frederic Amiel [Link to the book]

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Keep faith in today

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Yesterday is no more Tomorrow is not yet with us But today is where we live, love, laugh Cry, pray and share our all Today makes our tomorrows  Keep faith in today [Link to the book]

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Grateful for another day to live

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Grateful for another day to live To love, survive? I find such simple pleasures Just by walking in rain For every day that comes to me Is never quite the same Each moment is precious Each breath I inward take My heartbeat is passing time The thoughts that I shall make  Mostly I take for…

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To see a world in a grain of sand

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To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour William Blake

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My grandmothers were strong

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My grandmothers were strong They followed ploughs and bent to toil They moved through fields sowing seeds They touched Earth and grain grew They were full of sturdiness and song My grandmothers were strong They spun cotton into thread On the charkha And made cloth to dress their children My grandmothers were strong They milked…

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I shall pass through life but once

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I shall pass through life but once Any good, therefore, that I can do Or any kindness I can show To any fellow creature Let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it For I shall not pass this way again Stephen Grellet [Link to the book]

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