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No Longer Mourn for Me ~ by Shakespeare

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No Longer Mourn for Me

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.

 

By: William Shakespeare

Today’s Quote by Claude Bissell

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Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.

Claude Bissell

Enjoy a Music Moment with the Great Chet Baker

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Not Death But Love ~ Poem by Elizabeth Browning

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Not Death But Love

I thought once how Theocritus had sung

Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,

Who each one in a gracious hand appears

To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:

And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,

The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,

Those of my own life, who by turns had flung

A shadow across me.  Straightway I was ‘ware,

So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move

Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;

And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,–

“Guess now who holds thee!”–”Death,” I said, But, there,

The silver answer rang, “Not Death, but Love.”

– Elizabeth Browning

Forever ~ Poem by Khalil Gibran

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Forever

by Khalil Gibran

 I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
Forever.

Today’s Quote by John Steinbeck

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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck

Today’s Quote on Hope by Hemingway

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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.

Ernest Hemingway

Loss & Gain ~ Poem by Longfellow

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Loss And Gain

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

When I compare
What I have lost with what I have gained,
What I have missed with what attained,
Little room do I find for pride.

I am aware
How many days have been idly spent;
How like an arrow the good intent
Has fallen short or been turned aside.

But who shall dare
To measure loss and gain in this wise?
Defeat may be victory in disguise;
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Enjoy a Music Moment with Aretha Franklin Singing Amazing Grace

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Aretha Franklin Performs Amazing Grace

Poem on Love by Swami Vivekananda

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“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.
Love is therefore the only law of life.
He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.
Therefore love for love’s sake,
because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

– Swami Vivekananda

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