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Max Ehrmann - From the Aging category:
Though age and infirmity overtake me and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life and for time's oldest memories that are good and sweet, and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Business category:
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Competition category:
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Criticism category:
Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Depression category:
May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Desperation category:
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times... (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Dreams category:
Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Friendship category:
- Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life...
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Happiness category:
-Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life...
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Idealism category:
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Originality category:
Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path... (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Peace category:
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Profession category:
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Silence category:
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. (Max Ehrmann)
Max Ehrmann - From the Universe category:
-Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life...
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. (Max Ehrmann)
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