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HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL.........TORONTO
Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Just like the United Nation, students in our school came from different countries. My best friend Magda, came from Poland.
It takes only a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Goodbye classmates, friends, teachers, and my beloved HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL
SMILE
If at times you feel you want to cry And life seems such a trial
Above the clouds theres a bright blue sky So make your tears a smile.
As you travel on lifes way With its many ups and downs
Remember its quite true to say One smile is worth a dozen frowns.
Among the worlds expensive things A smile is very cheap
And when you give a smile away, You get one back to keep.
Happiness comes at times to all But sadness comes unbidden
And sometimes a few tears must fall Among the laughter hidden.
So when friends have sadness on their face And troubles round them piled
The world will seem a better place And all because you smiled.
This is a quotation from the book SIMPLE TRUTHS by Kent Nurburn:
You need to treat what love brings you with kindness. If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart.
If you find someone else in love with you toward whom you feel no love, feel honored that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain.
How you deal with love is how love will deal with you, and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are different.
If you fall in love with another who falls in love with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame. Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will know it in time, but time itself will choose the moment.
Remember this and keep it in your heart. You don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fill you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it to you. Give it to others who seem poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you
in any way you can.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.