If you can’t be the pine at the top of the hill Be the scrub in the valley, but be The best little scrub on the side of the hill …

Have you ever wished, when a day went wrong a wish that’s quite in vain that it were only possible to live that day again You’d start out in the …

A loving heart, a gentle smile, a warm and tender touch, We give so many things in life but nothing means as much. A little inspiration when someone loses hope, …

If the sky above seems cloudy, And you are left out in the rain, If you are searching for a rainbow, But the colors bring you pain, If your world …

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And, counting, find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him …

I have always seen life for what it really is. Ever since I was a child growing up, hard times are all I know. I had to sit back and …

Watching the world through a blacked-out window You see no sun, Yet people see light shining in your eyes, You are the sun for others Watching children play, wishing you …

Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have …

Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood, With its careless, thoughtless air, Like the verdant, tangled wildwood, Wants the training hand of care. See it springing all around us — Glad to …

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read Beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree. Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown, For …

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that …

I WONDER about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place We suffer them by …