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Today is:
Motivational Poems
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Take a few minutes to read the following poems below
to help encourage and inspire you.
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If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again
If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less and know to care more.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars,
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more often,
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I'd model less about the love of power,
And more about the power of love.
--Diane
Loomans
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Peace begins with me
starting over and breaking free.
Peace begins with me
opening my eyes and beginning to see.
Peace begins with me
curious about what I am going to be.
Peace begins with me
knowing I no longer have to flee.
Peace begins with me
having self dignity.
Peace begins with me
taking on more responsibility.
Peace begins with me
because peace is being happy.
and this is why peace begins with me!
~ By: Richard D. Marco III
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I Resign
I am hereby officially tendering my
resignation as an adult.
I have decided, I would like to accept
the
responsibilities of an 8-year-old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think
that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud
puddle and
make ripples with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money
because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and
run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot
summer day.
I want to return to a time when life was
simple.
When all you knew were colors,
multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you,
because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy because you
were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or
upset.
I want to think the world is fair.
that everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is
possible.
I want to be oblivious to the
complexities of life and
be overly excited by the little things
again.
I want to live simple again.
I don't want my day to consist of
computer crashes,
mountains of paperwork, depressing news,
how to survive more days in the month
than there is
money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip,
illness, and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles,
hugs,
a kind word, truth, justice, peace,
dreams,
the imagination, mankind, and making
angels
in the snow.
So...here's my checkbook and my car keys,
my credit
cards and all my responsibility.
I am officially resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this further,
you'll have to
catch me first, 'cause,
"Tag! You're it."
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A Child to Love
You can have your wealth and riches all the
things so many seek,
position, power, and success ,the fame you long
to keep.
You can earn as much as you wish, reach a status
high above,
but none of these can equal having one sweet
child to love.
'Tis the greatest gift from heaven, little arms
that hold you tight,
and a kiss so soft and gentle when you tuck them
in at night.
A million precious questions and each story
often read,
two eyes so bright and smiling, and a darling
tousled head.
God has never matched the goodness of a trusting
little face,
or a heart so full of laughter spreading
sunshine every place.
a child to hold and cuddle, 'Tis a gift from God
above,
and the world is so much brighter
when you have a child to love.
- Author Unknown
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End
If at
the end of the day you know you've done your best,
Regardless
of the outcomes you can peacefully rest.
For
you can’t control the results of anything you do,
but
if you know you've done your best, to
yourself
you've been true.
~Author:
Sid Maxwell
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You Can Be Whatever You Want to Be
There is inside you
all of the potential to be whatever
you want to be all of the energy
to do whatever you want to do.
Imagine yourself as you would like to be,
doing what you want to do, and each day,
take one step towards your dream.
And though at times it may seem too
difficult to continue, hold on to your dream.
One morning you will awake to find
that you are the person you dreamed of
doing what you wanted to do
simply because you had the courage
to believe in your potential
and to hold on to your dream.
~Author:
Donna Levine
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