"Be a friend. You don't need money:
Just a disposition sunny;
Just the wish to help another
Get along some way or other;

Just a kindly hand extended
Out to one who's unbefriended;
Just the will to give or lend,
This will make you someone's friend."

Edgar A. Guest (1931). Harbor Lights of Home.

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

Rainer Maria Rilke (1929). Letters to a young poet (M. D. Herter Norton, Trans.).

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.
Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;
All things give way before it, soon or late."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1887). Will. In Poems of passion.

"Times I burn to touch
someone &
be answered in kind.

Most days I stay home
& work, rising
& falling w/ the sun...
clay.

Times I wonder am I warm,
warm at all.

Times I think of a place
I've never been
to see it clear"

Barbara Moraff. (1983). Telephone Company Repairman Poems.

"Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous."

Kahlil Gibran. (1923). The Prophet.

"Fling up the curtains of your mind today And let the morning sunshine in to play;
Dwell on the joys and not the sorrows here, Master your thoughts and you have mastered fear.
Think happy thoughts."

Edgar A. Guest. (1911). Just Glad Things.

"All is beautiful and constant,
All is music and reason,
And everything, like the diamond,
Is coal first, then light." José Martí. (1891). Versos Sencillos.