It is easy to love the people far away.
It is not always easy to love those close to us.
It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger
than to relieve the loneliness and pain
of someone unloved in our own home.
Bring love into your home
for this is where our love
for each other must start. [4]
It is not always easy to love those close to us.
It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger
than to relieve the loneliness and pain
of someone unloved in our own home.
Bring love into your home
for this is where our love
for each other must start. [4]
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| Being/feeling unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat... We must find each other. [5] |
Do not keep the alabaster boxes
of your love and tenderness sealed up,
until your friends are dead.
Fill their lives with sweetness.
Speak approving, cheering words
while their ears can hear them
and while their hearts
can be thrilled and made happier by them.
The kind things you mean to say
when they are gone,
say them before they go.
The flowers you mean to send or use
to brighten and sweeten their homes
send them before they leave.
If my friends have alabaster boxes lay away,
full of fragrant perfumes
of sympathy and affection
I would rather they would bring them out
in my weary and troubled hours and open them,
that I may be refreshed
and cheered when I need them.
Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand.
Post-mortem kindness
does not cheer the burdened spirit.
Flowers cast no fragrance
backward over the weary way. [1]
Some people
come into our lives and never go.
They imprint
on our hearts.
And we are
never,
ever
the same. [2]
People need people
and friends need friends,
And we all need love
for a full life depends
Not on vast riches
or great acclaim,
Not on success
or on worldly fame,
But just in knowing
that someone cares
And holds us close
in their thoughts
and prayers -
For only the knowledge
that we're understood
Makes everyday living
feel wonderfully good.
And we rob ourselves
of life's greatest need
When we "lock up our hearts"
and fail to heed
The outstretched hand
reaching to find
A kindred spirit
whose heart and mind
Are lonely
and longing
to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows
and to make us aware
That life's completeness
and richness depends
On the things we share
with our loved ones
and friends. [3]
of your love and tenderness sealed up,
until your friends are dead.
Fill their lives with sweetness.
Speak approving, cheering words
while their ears can hear them
and while their hearts
can be thrilled and made happier by them.
The kind things you mean to say
when they are gone,
say them before they go.
The flowers you mean to send or use
to brighten and sweeten their homes
send them before they leave.
If my friends have alabaster boxes lay away,
full of fragrant perfumes
of sympathy and affection
I would rather they would bring them out
in my weary and troubled hours and open them,
that I may be refreshed
and cheered when I need them.
Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand.
Post-mortem kindness
does not cheer the burdened spirit.
Flowers cast no fragrance
backward over the weary way. [1]
Some people
come into our lives and never go.
They imprint
on our hearts.
And we are
never,
ever
the same. [2]
People need people
and friends need friends,
And we all need love
for a full life depends
Not on vast riches
or great acclaim,
Not on success
or on worldly fame,
But just in knowing
that someone cares
And holds us close
in their thoughts
and prayers -
For only the knowledge
that we're understood
Makes everyday living
feel wonderfully good.
And we rob ourselves
of life's greatest need
When we "lock up our hearts"
and fail to heed
The outstretched hand
reaching to find
A kindred spirit
whose heart and mind
Are lonely
and longing
to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows
and to make us aware
That life's completeness
and richness depends
On the things we share
with our loved ones
and friends. [3]
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[1] -Alabaster Boxes ~Author Unknown
[2] ~Unknown
[3] -Everyone Needs Someone ~Helen Steiner Rice
[4] & [5] ~Mother Teresa
Media: I'll Be There
[1] -Alabaster Boxes ~Author Unknown
[2] ~Unknown
[3] -Everyone Needs Someone ~Helen Steiner Rice
[4] & [5] ~Mother Teresa
Media: I'll Be There
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