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Desiderata
Jul. 13th, 2006 06:54 pmGo Placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be in good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant: they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to teh spirit. If you compare yourself to others you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as you plans. Keep interested in your career, however humble: it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for teh world id full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what vitue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everwhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is a perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nuture the strenth of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imagining. Many fears are born of fatiue and loneliness. Beyond a wholdsome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the univers is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be; and whatever your labours and spiratins, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. Bcheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehmann
Enjoy your achievements as well as you plans. Keep interested in your career, however humble: it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for teh world id full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what vitue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everwhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is a perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nuture the strenth of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imagining. Many fears are born of fatiue and loneliness. Beyond a wholdsome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the univers is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be; and whatever your labours and spiratins, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. Bcheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehmann
