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Plant a Garden

by Edgar Guest
If your purse no longer bulges
   and you've lost your golden treasure,
If at times you think you're lonely
   and have hungry grown for pleasure,
Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
   don't let mind and spirit harden.
If it's thrills of joy you wish for
   get to work and plant a garden!

If it's drama that you sigh for,
   plant a garden and you'll get it
You will know the thrill of battle
   fighting foes that will beset it
If you long for entertainment and
   for pageantry most glowing,
Plant a garden and this summer spend
   your time with green things growing.


I can't imagine a person becoming a success
who doesn't give this game of life
everything he's got
:: Walter Cronkite


Pursue some path,
however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk
with love and reverence
:: Henry David Thoreau


What wisdom can you find
that is greater than kindness?
:: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale,
you could not ignore its beauty
:: Georgia O'Keeffe


It is not the brains that matter most,
but that which guides them —
the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas
:: Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Junk food is pushed on our children from everywhere.
Television, the internet, movies, video games, food aisles, magazines, newspapers, corporate sponsorships.
Why the hell are we allowing it to be pushed on them in our schools?
Shame on any school that thinks it's appropriate to peddle nutritional garbage to our children
:: Dr. Yoni Freedhoff


I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird
or the rising of the sun on a misty morning.
There they are, and they are beautiful
:: Pete Hamill


You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment
:: Henry David Thoreau


I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door — or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present
:: Joan Rivers


Happiness is not something you postpone for the future;
it is something you design for the present
:: Jim Rohn

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