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When we learn to say a deep,

Passionate yes to the things

That really matter,

Then peace begins to settle

Onto our lives like golden sunlight

Sifting to a forest floor.

- Thomas Kinkade

 

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The top 6 regrets of the dying

 

You've heard this before…

 

No one on his or her deathbed ever said,

'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'

 

Here are the other things you'll likely regret.

 

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true

To myself, not the life others expected of me.

 

2. I wish I had not worked so hard.

 

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

 

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

 

5. I wish I had let myself be happier.

 

6. I wish I had saved more for retirement.

 

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Have You Earned Your Tomorrow

 

Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along?
Or a churlish sort of "Howdy" and then vanish in the throng?
Were you selfish pure and simple as you rushed along the way,
Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today?

Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;
Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

Did you waste the day, or lose it; was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

 

- Edgar Guest