Wisdom and Beauty

Here are thoughts to help young spirits soar and young minds grow-grow in wonder at the beauty of the world, toward reverence for life and tolerance of all humankind, and in understanding of how to live each day happily, fairly, and graciously.

Happy Thought
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

Of Courtesy

Good Manners may in Seven Words be found:

Forget Yourself and think of Those Around

taken from A Poet's Proverbs, by Arthur Guiterman

Beauty

Beauty is seen

In the sunlight,

The trees, the birds,

Corn growing and people working

Or dancing for their harvest.

Beauty is heard

In the night,

Wind sighing, rain falling,

Or a singer chanting

Anything in earnest.

Beauty is in yourself

Good deeds, happy thoughs

That repeat themselves

In your dreams,

In your work,

And even in your rest

From I Am a Pueblo Indian Girl by E-Yeh-Shure'