Something I came up with :)

Promise me that on days when life becomes unbearable--

You remember that there are people who love you.

When you feel that you aren't beautiful,

God made you in His image.

When you hurt someone, you apologize,

And when someone hurts you, you forgive.

When you feel like giving up,

Remember that winners NEVER quit.

When you love with all your soul and it's not reciprocated back,

Love harder, anyway.

When you are ridiculed for who you are,

Being unique just means that there is no one else like you.

Promise me that above all,

God comes first,

Family is your everything,

And you keep the friendships that shake your soul.

Your true love will come, eventually.

But until that time,

Continue to make your existence in this world

Something worth remembering.

Love.Hope.Dream.Believe.Pray.

And always remember that God loves you.

Tips..

All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery school.

These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that.

And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

--- Robert Fulghum

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Henry Wandsworth Longfellow

The tide rises, the tide falls,

The twilight darkens, the curfew calls,

Along the sea-sands damp the bown

The traveller hastens towrd the town.

And the tide rises, the tide falls

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,

But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls,

The little waves with their sof, thie hands,

Efface the footprints in the sands,

And the tide rises, the tid falls.

The morning breas; the steeds in their stalls

Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls,

The day returns, but nevermore

Returns the traveller to the shore,

And the tide rises, the tide falls...

Phenomenal Woman

Phenomenal Woman
by:
Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size. But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.