In a Rose Garden

» And vainly there foregathered,

Shall we regret the sun?
The rose of love, ungathered?

The bay, we have not won?

Ah, child! the world’s dark marges

May lead to Nevermore,
The stately funeral barges

Sail for an unknown shore,
And love we vow to-morrow,

And pride we serve to-day:
What-if they both should borrow

Sad hues of yesterday?

Our pride! Ah, should we miss it,

Or will it serve at last?
Our anger, if we kiss it,

Is like a sorrow past.
While roses deck the garden,

While yet the sun is high,
Doff sorry pride for pardon,

Or ever love go by.

Ernest Dowson [1867-1900]

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

~ Ella Fitzgerald

“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”

Mother Teresa
Roman Catholic Missionary

“If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.”

~ Joyce Chapman

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”

~ Greg Anderson