Change by Tracy Chapman
10:36 PM Posted by Unknown
If you knew that you would die today
Saw the face of god and love
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that love can break your heart
When you're down so low that you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good, does it need to get?
How many losses? how much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change
Makes you change
If you knew that you would be alone
Knowing right, being wrong,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would find a truth
That would bring a pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good, does it need to get?
How many losses? how much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change
Makes you change
Are you so up right
You can't be bent
If it comes to blows
Are you so sure you won't be crawling
If not for the good why why risk falling
Why risk falling?
If everything you think you know
Makes your life unbearable
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you'd broken every rule and vow
And hard times come to bring you down
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and loved
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you saw the face of God and loved
If you saw the face of God and loved
Would you change?
Would you change?
7 Must Read Success Lessons from Ralph Waldo Emerson - by Dumb Little Man
11:09 PM Posted by Unknown
Start Small
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
It’s okay to start small. What’s small today will one day be enormous, if you stay consistent. Don’t be concerned with your current size; be concerned with the direction that you’re traveling in. If you’re going in the right direction, you will eventually get to your goal. You will eventually become, what you were destined to become. At last your greatness will be revealed.
Keep Good Friends
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
A large part of success is having good friends. A good friend is someone who you can be yourself with.
You don’t have to put on a show, and you don’t have to be smart for a good friend. In the words of Emerson, “you can afford to be stupid with them.” Recognize your good friends, mark them, they are a part of your success.
Action Trumps Theorizing
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
It’s easy to sit around and theorize, but the reward is in the action. It’s imperative that you’re in action! Don’t just discuss your theories, test them, and test them today.
Action always trumps inaction, get in motion, have some failures, and it time, success will be yours.
Thoughts Become Things
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Anyone who has successfully changed a bad habit knows that right thinking is the foundation for change. This person knows that to the degree their thinking has changed is to the degree their desires have changed. Desires are birth from thoughts. What are you thinking about? Whatever it is, it is creating your life.
What you ponder you become! Thoughts of success will produce success, and thoughts of failure will perpetuate failure. To change your life you must change your thinking. Thoughts are the root of all change.
The Old Violin
12:00 PM Posted by Unknown
To waste such time on the old violin, but he held it up with a smile.
"What am I bid, good people," he cried "who'll start the bidding for me?
A dollar? A dollar. Who'll make it two? Two dollars who'll make it three?
Three dollars once, three dollars twice going for three," but no!
From the room, far back, a gray-bearded man came forward and picked up the bow.
Then wiping the dust from the old violin, and tightening up the strings,
he played a melody, pure and sweet, as sweet as the angel sings.
The music ceased, and the auctioneer with a voice that was quiet and low said,
"What now am I bid for this old violin?" as he held it up with the bow.
"One thousand? One thousand, do I hear two? Two thousand. Who'll make it three?
Three thousand once, three thousand twice, going and gone!" said he.
The audience cheered, but some of them cried, "We just don't understand.
What changed it's worth?" Swift came the reply, "The touch of the masters hand."
And many a man, with life out of tune, all battered with bourbon and gin,
Is auctioned cheap, to a thoughtless crowd, much like that old violin.
A mess of pottage, a glass of wine, a game, and he travels on.
He's going once, he's going twice, he's going and almost gone.
But the Master comes and the foolish crowd never can quite understand,
The worth of a soul and the change that is wrought, by the Touch of the Masters Hand.
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