Your Best is Yet to be
1. Your capacities are trembling to be born.
-Abraham Maslow
2. If you can dream it
You can become it.
If you can imagine it
You can achieve it.
- Anonymous
To Grow or Not to Grow
1. And the day came when the
risk to remain tight in a bud
was mote painful than the risk
it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
2. People do not grow old.
When they cease to grow,
they become old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
...
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sate alone here in the snow
And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
No moment at thy voice ... but, link by link,
Went counting all my chains, as if that so
They never could fall off at any blow
Struck by thy possible hand ... why, thus I drink
Of life's great cup of wonder! Wonderful,
Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
With personal act or speech,—nor ...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I ...