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World of Possibility
World of Possibilityby Michael DoyleIn a blind man’s eyesWe can make the worldA lot more wonderful.In a blind man’s eyesWe can make this worldA million shades of beautiful.If only we would try.You know that I don’t lie.Trade your smile for … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Blind Man, Care, Cry, Dare, Do It Or Die, Eyes, Fair, Friends, Give Up, Hand, Hearts, Laugh, Liie, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Shades, Share, Sigh, Smile, Start, Sunny Dial, Together, Try, Wonderful, World
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First Principles: My Faith Demands That I Do Whatever I Can, Wherever I Am, Whenever I Can, For As Long As I Can With Whatever I Have To Try To Make A Difference
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try … Continue reading
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Tagged As Long As I Can, Demand, Difference, Faith, First Principles, Jimmy Carter, Try, Whatever, Whatever I Can, Where I Am, Wnenever I Can
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Thought For the Day: Our Greatest Weakness Lies In Giving Up. The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is Always To Try Just One More Time
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
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Tagged Certain Way, Giving up, Great, Just One More Time, Succeed, Thomas Edison, Thought For the Day, Try, Weakness
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Thought For the Day: No Matter How Many Mistakes You Make Or How Slow You Progress, You Are Still Way Ahead of Everyone Who Isn’t Trying
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins
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Tagged Mistakes, No Matter, Progress, Slow, Thought For the Day, Tony Robbins, Try, Way Ahead
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Growing Our Intimacy
Growing Our Intimacyby Michael DoyleWe have so little time for introspectionAs we approach life with our expectationsSometimes it’s an easy flow of conversationOther times, we’re micro-managing our destinationBeing present and being openly hereIs the experiment of what might disappearAs our … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Alibis, Anticipating, Approach, Approach Love, Attract, Bad Girls, Becoming Us, Being Present, Comfortable Silence, Confirmation, Conversations, Cry, Dance, Destination, Disappear, Each Day, Easy Flow, Electricity, Excitement, Expectations, Experiment, Fake, Feel, Friendship, Grow, Hope, Internal Debate, Intimacy, Introduce, Introspection, Just Because, Letting Love Flow, Life, Little Time, Love, Magnet, Micro-manage, Nice Guys, Nights of Love, Open, Party, Path, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rough, Scaru, Sentimental, Sincerity, Smile, Something Much Better, Something Real, Spark, Spend Together, Sweet surrender, Take, Talk, The same, Think, Together, Touch the Flame, Try, Welcome, Why, Words
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Valentine’s Season
Valentine’s Seasonby Michael DoyleIn a circular society, there are seasonsSome of these devoid of sensible reasonsAs to why there is plenty or there is lessLove to be found, yet if I had to guessIt’s more worth quietly learning to resignAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, All of This, Alone, Anguish, Apartment Wall, Argument, Attention, Call, Capuccino, Chances, Circular Society, Complete, Constant Denial, Cry, Design, Devoid, Do Not Disturb Sign, Dream, Easy, Efforts, Evade, Failed To Say, Falling In Love, Father, Feelings, Find Her, Follow, Found, Four Course Dinner, Friends, Good Turn, Guess, Happiness and Joy, Human Condition, Journey, Learn, Less, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Depends, Loveable, Manage, Mine, Miss, My Daughters, My Fault, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Point, Prayer, Quiet Moments, Reasons, Reminder, Replete, Resign, Season, Seasons, Secret, Self-Sedition, Shadows, Silver Moonlight, Sip, Smile, Someone, Stone, Trip, Try, Tyle, Valentine, Wish
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To Yet Believe
To Yet Believeby Michael DoyleConfused by shadowsWe wonder at what we knowTo the heavens and to belowWe feint at what we might knowPerhaps spoken dreamsAre our best questsThe impossible, so it seemsGives us our best testsTo fight to right the … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belong, Below, Brave Hearts, Call, Confuse, Courage, Destiny, Down-At-Heart, Dream, Dreamer, Earnest Hearts, End, Feint, Fight, Final Home, Give, Glory, Greatest Gift, Heart, Heaven, Heavens, Home, Impossible, Knight, Know, Lerry, Passing Years, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Quest, Recall, Reval, Right, Seem, Shadow, Start, Story, Tear, Test, Try, Weary, Wonder, Wrongs
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First Principles: It Is Hard To Fail, But It Is Worse Never To Have Tried To Succeed. In This Life, We Get Nothing Save By Effort
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Tagged Effort, Fail, First Principles, Hard, Life, Nothing, Succeed, Theodore Roosevelt, Try, Worse
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A Sunrise Journey
A Sunrise Journeyby Michael DoyleClouds hang high in the morning skyAs if painted for the poet’s eyeThere’s a journey undertaken by the heartWhere the holiest of holy finds its startLike a seagull traveling light on its journeyA soul travels reaching … Continue reading
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Tagged A Few More Smiles, Accept, Clouds, Constant Flow, Destiny, Dreams, Farther, Faster, Fly, Forgiven, Greater, Heart, Holiest of Holy, How High, Journey, Learn to See, Limits, Morning Sky, Painted, Poet's Eye, Poetry and Poems, Seagull, Soar, Spread Your Wings, Sunrise, Taken Wings, Travel, Try, Why Can't I?, Worry
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Thought For the Day: They Tried To Bury Us. They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds.
“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” – Dinos Christianopoulos, poet (20 Mar 1931-2020) It’s interesting how people and sources are lost along the way. It seems the origins of a phrase is that it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Bury, Dinos Christianopoulos, Know, Seeds, They, Thought For the Day, Try, Us, We
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 