WORDS OF INSPIRATION

‘It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. 
You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power,
it mayb not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that
doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know
what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will
be no result.’

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948

‘There are only two mistakes you can make on the path to truth.
One is not starting, the other is not going all the way.’

Mark Passio

You know our leaders have made the wrong choice. 
Let them know they have made that mistake.
Be governed by your choices and not theirs.

Make That change!

source. WhatsApp , 17 November 2023

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Today is the first day of the rest of my life!
Today is the very first day of the rest of my life. This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use as I will. I can waste it … or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in it’s place something I have traded for it. I want it to be gain and not loss; good and not evil; success and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

I will try just for today, for you will never fail until you stop trying.

Anon.

Confucius (551-479 BC)
‘We have two lives.
The second begins when we realise we only have one.’

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Dont add more years to your life:
Add more life to your years!

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
‘The most important thing in life is to
Stop saying, ‘I wish’ and
Start saying, ‘I will.’

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
‘You can’t go back and change the beginning,
but you can start where you are and change the ending.’

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Ethiopian proverb.
When the spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

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Know Your Worth – Mindset of Greatness
When someone treats you like you’re just one of many options,
help them narrow their choice by removing yourself from the equation.
Sometimes you have to try not to care, no matter how much you do.
Because sometimes you can mean almost nothing to someone who means so much to you.
It’s not pride -it’s self-respect.
Don’t give part-time people a full-time position. in your life.
knowe your value and what you have to offer,
And never settle for anything less than what you deserve.

Scott Stabile
Let them judge you
Let them misunderstand you
Let them gossip about you
Their opinions aren’t your problem.
You stay kind, committed to love,
And free in your authenticity.
No matter what they do or say,
Don’t you dare doubt your worth
Or the beauty of your truth.
Just keep on shining like you do.

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Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760)
Let me fall, if I must fall.
The one I become will catch me.

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If
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoke
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Jerusalem
William Blake (1757-1827)

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark, satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.

The Gospel of Saint John. Chapter one, verses 1-4.
In the beginning was the Word,
And the Word was with God,
And the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and
Without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

The Gospel of Saint Matthew. Chapter eleven, verses 28-30.
Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
And I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;
For I am meek and lowly in heart:
And ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Climb every mountain

Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every byway, every path you know.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.

A dream that will need all the love you can give
Every day of your life, for as long as you live.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.

A dream that will need all the love you can give
Every day of your life, for as long as you live.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.

Rodgers & Hammerstein – The Sound of Music
1960/1965

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘I have a dream’ speech, Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, 28th August 1963.

‘…I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring…’