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| After A While by Veronica A. Shoffstall: He Is Gone by David Harkins Quotes attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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After A While by Veronica A. Shoffstall:
After a while, you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans.
And futures have a way of falling down in midflight.
After a while, you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure ...
That you really are strong.
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every goodbye you learn.
He Is Gone by David Harkins
You can shed a tear that he is gone,
Or you can smile because he lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that he has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see him,
Or you can be full of the love that you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember him and only that he is gone,
Or you can cherish his memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind...
Be empty and turn your back,
Or you can do what he would want:
Smile
Open your eyes,
Love and go on.
(This is a selection of quotes attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that we
have used in our weekly email RIPPLES on the 3rd Monday in January over
the past 12 years. Please feel free to share these quotes widely, and let people
know that RIPPLES is a free weekly splash of inspiration, without
spam/marketing, that takes 60 seconds or less to read. http://TheRipplesProject.
org/)
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow
confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all
humanity. -
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size
of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and
relationship to mankind. -
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,
it multiplies it...
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the
hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate...
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper
darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative
altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
"What are you doing for others?"
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus
character, that is the goal of a true education.
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can
do that.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Make a career of humanity...and you will make a greater person of
yourself,
a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which
stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The
tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will
include everything, and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a
few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel
for fear of being called different.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels
for carving out peaceful tomorrows. One day we must come to see that
peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which
we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful
means. How much longer must we play at deadly war games before we
heed the plaintive pleas of the unnumbered dead and maimed of past
wars?
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You don't have to know about Aristotle and Plato to serve ...
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -
When evil men plot, good men plan.
When evil men bomb and burn,
good men must build and bind.
When evil men shout words of hatred,
good men must commit themselves
to the glory of love.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
staircase.
Without faith we are orphans cast into the terrifying immensities of
space in a universe that is without purpose or intelligence.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite
hope.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final
word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than
evil triumphant.
After a while, you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans.
And futures have a way of falling down in midflight.
After a while, you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure ...
That you really are strong.
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every goodbye you learn.
He Is Gone by David Harkins
You can shed a tear that he is gone,
Or you can smile because he lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that he has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see him,
Or you can be full of the love that you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember him and only that he is gone,
Or you can cherish his memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind...
Be empty and turn your back,
Or you can do what he would want:
Smile
Open your eyes,
Love and go on.
(This is a selection of quotes attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that we
have used in our weekly email RIPPLES on the 3rd Monday in January over
the past 12 years. Please feel free to share these quotes widely, and let people
know that RIPPLES is a free weekly splash of inspiration, without
spam/marketing, that takes 60 seconds or less to read. http://TheRipplesProject.
org/)
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow
confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all
humanity. -
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size
of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and
relationship to mankind. -
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,
it multiplies it...
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the
hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate...
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper
darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative
altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
"What are you doing for others?"
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus
character, that is the goal of a true education.
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can
do that.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Make a career of humanity...and you will make a greater person of
yourself,
a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which
stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The
tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will
include everything, and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a
few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel
for fear of being called different.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels
for carving out peaceful tomorrows. One day we must come to see that
peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which
we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful
means. How much longer must we play at deadly war games before we
heed the plaintive pleas of the unnumbered dead and maimed of past
wars?
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You don't have to know about Aristotle and Plato to serve ...
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -
When evil men plot, good men plan.
When evil men bomb and burn,
good men must build and bind.
When evil men shout words of hatred,
good men must commit themselves
to the glory of love.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
staircase.
Without faith we are orphans cast into the terrifying immensities of
space in a universe that is without purpose or intelligence.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite
hope.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final
word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than
evil triumphant.