Sweet Home Union High School - Timber Echo Yearbook (Sweet Home, OR)

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DESIDERATA Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly: listen to others, even the dull and ignorant: they too, have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. lfyou compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter: for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble: it is a real possession in the changing fortunes oftime. Exercise caution in your business affairsg for the world is full oftrickery. But let this not blind you to what virture there is: many persons strive for high ideals: and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love: for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things ofyouth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourselfwith imaginings. Many fears are born offatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child ofthe universe, no less than the trees and the stars: you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. Max Ehrmann 0 l9Z7 hy Max Ehrmann All rights reserved, Copyright renewed l954 hv Bertha K. Ehrmann: Reprinted hy permission Crescndo Publishing Cu... Boston. Mass.