Inspirational Poems and Quotes

Good Thoughts

Good thoughts are the threads

With which we weave the web of life;

The threads which build

The strong and fibrous cloth

We know as character.

And, like the patterns,

That looms of modern science weave,

Our lives can be no lovelier,

No stronger, than the threads

From which our lives are made.

Katherine Maurine Haaff

Talk Happiness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough

Without your woe. No path is wholly rough;

Look for the places that are smooth and clear,

And speak of those, to rest the weary ear

Of Earth, so hurt by one continuous strain

Of human discontent and grief and pain.

 

Talk faith. The world is better off without

Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

If you have faith in God, or man, or self,

Say so. If not, push back upon the shelf

Of silence, all your thoughts, till faith shall come;

No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

 

Talk health. The dreary, never-ending tale

Of mortal maladies is more than stale.

One cannot charm, or interest, or please

By harping on that minor chord, disease.

Say you are well, or all is well with you,

And God shall hear your words and make them true.

 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox