Flowers and Favorite Writings---

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I wll not refuse to do the something that I can do.

By Edward Everett Hale

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and didn't put a soul in."
---By Henry Ward Beecher

NOBODY---

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us---don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

By Emily Dickinson

Question not, but live and labor
Till your goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbor,
Seeking help from none;

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

Written by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1867)

ENVY---

I wonder if the poppy shows
The slightest envy of the rose?
Or if the pansy wastes its time
Regretting that it cannot climb?
Do blossoms of a yellow hue
Complain because they are not blue?
Do birds which God designed to sing
Envy the wild ducks' fleeter wing?
And does the sparrow sadly mourn
Because he was not goldfinch born?

I cannot say, but fancy not.
Each seems contented with his lot.
'Tis only man who thinks that he
Some other man would rather be.

By Edgar A. Guest

"Reflect upon your present blessings---of which every man has many---not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
By Charles Dickens

"We may pass violets looking for roses.
We may pass contentment looking for victory"
---By Bern Williams

MYSELF---

I have to live with myself, and so,
I want to be fit for myself to know;
I want to be able as days go by
Always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done.

I never can hide myself from me,
I see what others may never see,
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself---and so,
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free.

By Edgar A. Guest

Succeed In Life--- "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I Dream of Living My Life Over Again.

"If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things I would take seriously. I would be crazier. I would be less hygenic. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers and watch more sunsets. I would burn more candles at both ends and then bite into the middles to learn what they are made of. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. You see, I am one of those people who lived prophylactically and sensibly and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I have had my moments, and, if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I have been one of those people who never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a gargle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had it to do over again, I would go places and do things and travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefooted earlier in the Spring and stay that way later in the Fall. I would play hooky more. I wouldn't make such good grades except by accident. I would ride on more merry go-rounds. I would---

PICK MORE DAISIES! - - -
(By Nadine Stair)

Now grow the daisies
across many lands...
A symbol of peace-time,
held by little hands,
They bask in the sun,
in the breezes they nod,
Now grow the white daisies...
The flowers of God.
---By Jessie Cannon Eldridge

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

By Iris Murdoch in "A Fairly Honourable Defeat"

The Gentle Gardener

I'd like to leave but daffodills to mark my little way,
To leave but tulips red and whte behind me as I stray:
I'd like to pass away from earth and feel I'd left behind
But roses and forget-me-nots for all who come to find.

I'd like to sow the barren spots with all the flowers of earth.
To leave a path where those who come should find but gentle mirth;
And when at last I'm called upon to join the heavenly throng
I'd like to feel along my way I'd left no sign of wrong.

By Edgar A. Guest

Two Seeds--- Two little seeds lay neath the ground. Both were small and nearly round. They both peeped out the very same day In the beautiful, sunny month of May. They grew for weeks right there in line With the same cool rain and the same sunshine. But one made a weed, obnoxious and mean And one the fairest flower I have ever seen. It's a puzzle to an oaf like me Why so different those plants should be. But there are wiser ones who say It's what's inside the seed will pay. That what's in the heart at last will come out And display itself to those about. ~~By Della Alexa~~

All the flowers of all the Tomorrows are in the seeds of Today....

~~Background Midi Sequenced by DON CARROLL~~

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