My friend is leaving the UK to move to Austrailia and I want to put together a book of inspirational poems and saying for her.
Does anyone have any favourites they would like to share?
I'm going to definitely include this one:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
and the Desdirata
Max Ehrmann's "Desiderata"
and also The Paradoxical Commandments:
Anyway, The Paradoxical Commandments - Do It Anyway - Kent M. Keith, Silent Revolution
What others would you include?