• The natural world among us brightens my day
• My religion gives me a purpose in life, to become the best person I can be
• I adore 2Pac, and I find his lyrics amazingly deep, dealing with incredible raw emotions
• Poetry gives me an opportunity to explore my thoughts, emotions and the world around me, as does photography

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"What is a prayer?

I asked Grandpa one day.

He waited.

Look how those trees reach for the sky?

Yearning for heaven

What else is that but a prayer?"

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Is there any Remover of difficulties save God?

Say: Praised be God. He is God. All are his servants and all abide by his bidding.

 - The Bab

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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face.

Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech.

Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men.

Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression.

Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts.

Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive.

Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring.

Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation,

a fruit upon the tree of humility.

- Baha'u'llah