[heygirl08]

I'm doing Read Aloud for English class, and I was wondering what your favorite poems and stories are and why.

[Malice_Kaiser]

Johnny was a chemist's son,
But Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H20
was H2SO4.


It helped me through chemistry.
(no it didn't)

[Avex]

"Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief." - Jane Austeen, Emma

"Time spent in idleness is quickly well spent." - Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone

I'll come back

[bonnie_heart5]

The tree on the hill stands alone, but with its pig it shall be happy.


ahahahahhaha

[joonage]

"Actions may not bring happiness, but happiness does not come without action"

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we feel liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

[WHATSHERFACE]

So dawn goes to day nothing gold can stay - Robert Frost

[&rea]

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we feel liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

I love that quote...

Also:

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect, and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean."
- Bob Marley
...and my signature.

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I absolutely love Cheryl Costello-Forshey's stories. They're easy to read, and are very inspiring...Check her out (she's been in the Chicken Soup series)

My favourites are:
"Making Sarah Cry"
"Fingerpaints and Crayons"
"The Most Beautiful Flower"