Favorite Quotes, proverbs and poems
"You can't step into the same river twice"
Heraclitus
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
Unknown
"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap only to stumble backward"
Old Chinese Proverb
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
Confucious
an not do kindness to soon, for you never you know how soon it will be to late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure"
Nelson Mandela
"Our greatest sorrow is our greatest joy, and our greatest joy is our greatest sorrow."
Unknown
Who Am I Still Inside
By: Ivan Mauricio Olarte
I finally let the little boy inside grow up,
The one that I protected all my life.
I Sometimes wonder if he is still inside.
And evev now as I feel strong, and all grown up,
I want to keep him in my heart.
Who am I still inside?
Am I still just a little boy all grown up?
Simply stumbling through this thing called life?
On reflection I guess I am.
like a tumble weeds in this ghost town we call life,
Full of thorns all covered in dust,
Sometimes hurting those I love the most.
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest:
then you are coming out the other side
Chinese Proverb
"Like a tree I stand, reaching for the light, gaining strength from the
darkness of my roots. My body is twisted by the storms of life, yet in my
uniqueness I am beautiful"
Modern Affirmation
For The Interim Time
By: John O'Donohue
When near the end of the day, life has drained
Out of light, and it is too soon
For the mind of night to have darkened things,
No place looks like itself, loss of outline
Makes everything look strangely in-between,
Unsure of what has been, or what might come.
In this wan light, even trees seem groundless.
In a while it will be night, but nothing
Here seems TO believe the relief of dark.
You are in this time of interimWhere everything seems withheld.
The path you took to get here was washed out:
The way forward is still concealed from you.
"The old is not old enough to have died away:
The new is still to young to be born."
You cannot lay claim to anything:
In this place of dusk,
Your eyes are blurred:
And there is no mirror.
Everyone else has lost sight of your heart
And you can see nowhere to put your trust:
You know you have to make your own way through.
As far as you can, hold your confidence.
Do not allow your confusion to squander
This call which is loosening
Your roots in false ground,
That you might come free
From all you have outgrown.
What is being transfigured here i syour mind,
And it is difficukt and slow to become new.
The more faithfully you can endure here,
The more refined your heart will become
For your arrival in the new dawn.
