THE DESEDERATA - BY MAX EHRMANN
Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what PEACE there may be in SILENCE...
As far as possible, with out surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly: and listen to others even to the dull an ignorant: they too have their story...
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are VEXATIONS to the spirit...
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than your self...
Enjoy your achievments...
Keep interested in your own career, however hunble, it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of times....
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery...
But let this not blind you to what virture there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of HEROISM...
BE YOUR SELF...
Espically DO NOT feign affection...
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment , it is as perennial as the grass...
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth...
NURTURE STRENGTH of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune...But do not distress your self with dark imaginings...
Many fears are born of fatigue and lonliness...
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself...
YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE NO LESS THAN THE TREES AND STARS, you have a right to be here, and weather or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...
Therefore be at peace with God, WHAT EVER YOU CONCIEVE HIM?HER to be and what ever your labors and aspirations, in the NOISY CONFUSION OF LIFE, KEEP PEACE IN YOUR SOUL...
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken drearyness, it is still a BEAUTIFUL WORLD...
BE CHEERFUL, STRIVE TO BE HAPPY...
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