• Life Is...
• Take The Power
• One Day At A Time
• Life
• Believe In Your Heart
• Your Life Is...
• Don't Look Back
• Take Time
• After Awhile
• One...
• If You Think
• You Are
• You Learn
• Follow Your Dream
• A Pebble
•The Optimist's Creed
• Be Thankful
• If Not
• Be A Kid Again
•Just Because
• Choices
• Children Learn What They Live
• Taking Risks
• This Is To Have Succeeded
• Selective Memory
• The Be Attitudes
• Time
• Every Drop Is A Dream
• Make The Most Of Everyday
• To Believe
•Today I Can...
•Natural Highs

If Not

If not for fatigue, we would not appreciate energy.

If not for death, we would not be thankful for life.

If not for poverty, we could not appreciate prosperity.

If not for ignorance, we could not appreciate wisdom.

If not for failure, we could not fully appreciate success.

If not for harm, we could not appreciate safety.

If not for confusion, we would not appreciate peace.

If not for cowardice, we could not appreciate bravery.

If not for enemies, we would not know the meaning of friends.

If not for betrayal, we would not appreciate loyalty.

If not for fog, we could not appreciate clarity.

If not for hate, we would not appreciate love.

If not for reality, dreams would have no meaning.

If not for shallowness, we would not appreciate insight.

If not for shame, we could not appreciate pride.

If not for bad, we would have no appreciation of good.

If not for sorrow, we would not understand joy.

If it were not for our past, The present may be much easier to accept.

But as you noticed, a world without scars, is a world without meaning.

• Home   • Life Poems   • Life Stories   • Life Lessons   • Life Quotes   • My Life   • Links