"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to my sense in a dark forest, for I had lost the straight path." -- The Divine Comedy
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Spare an Angel
* Chris Rice *
Found her starin' at the rain
And ask'n why it has to hurt so bad
Where's the limit to the pain her heart can take
Before it breaks in half
I wanted to be strong enough to hold her
And show her the way
But she's so far out of reach
And now all I can do is pray
Can you spare an angel tonight
Send a little help from your side
'coz somebody's lost down here
Let him wing his way through the dare
Carry some of your love into her heart
Can you spare an angel
Spare an angel
Spare an angel
She wonders further in the dark
Feels the cold and hears the thunder cry
While the rain keeps pouring down
Her only answer from the lonely sky
She has no idea how much you love her
Or how much you care
So would you choose one of your best
To be the answer to my prayer
Chorus
Oh I don't know what else to pray this time
Maybe an angel can leade her lonesome heart away to Jesus' side
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"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." -- Wayne Dyer
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin
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The Oyster
* Author Unknown *
There once was an oyster whose story I tell,
Who found that some sand had got into his shell.
It was only a grain, but it gave him great pain
For oysters have feelings although they're so plain.
Now, did he berate the harsh workings of fate
that brought him to such a deplorable state?
Did he curse at the government, cry for election,
And claim that the sea should have given him protection?
NO -- he said to himself as he lay on a shell,
Since I cannot remove it I shall try to improve it.
Now the years have rolled around, as the years always do.
And he came to his ultimate destiny: stew.
And the small grain of sand that had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.
Now the tale has a moral, for isn't it grand
What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?
What couldn't we do if we'd only begin
with some of the things that get under our skin?
** Courtesy of AsAManThinketh.net
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The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision." -- Robyn Davidson
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Growth is not a steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap." -- Dorothy Corkville Briggs
"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we may have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear." -- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Vernon Sanders Law
"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming." -- Anthony Robbins
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney
