Poems Summer 2009                                             
 

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

AA Milne

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.

Amelia Earhart

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.

Robert Brault

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George Smith Patton

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the Spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James Mattew Barrie

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

Felix Adler

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

Nelson Mandela