Life #5

SMILE VIRUS

By Russel H. Conwell

Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu.

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling, too.



I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin

when he smiled, I realized I'd passed it on to him!



I thought about that smile and then realized its worth,

a single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth.



So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected,

let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

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Do It Anyway

- Author unknown



People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

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Which Are you?

Author unknown



I watched them tearing a building down,



A gang of men in a busy town.



With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,



They swung the beams and the sidewalls fell.







I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,



The kind you’d hire were you to build?”



He laughed and said, “Why, no indeed!



Just common laborers are all I need.



They can easily wreck in a day or two



What builders have taken years to do.”







And I thought to myself as I went my way:







“What part in the game of life do I play?



Am I the builder who works with care,



Measuring life by the rule and the square?



Am I shaping my deeds to a well-made plan



Patiently doing the best I can?



Or am I a wrecker who walks the town,



Content with the labor of tearing down?”