Copy of Desiderata

[billiej 10]

Can anybody tell me where I can get a copy from of Desiderata ? I've tried bookshops etc but no luck. I need it urgently during this week for a present. Thanks in anticipation! This is the reading starting

'Go placidly amidst the noise and haste......

[kris99 11]

Amazon. I have a copy on my wall and it's my bible.

[Snowglobe 10]

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---------- Post added 05-07-2015 at 21:30 ----------

 

Alternatively, copy/paste and print the text and make your own copy.

 

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

 

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;

and everywhere life is full of heroism.

 

Be yourself.

Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

 

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

 

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

 

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,

and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

 

© Max Ehrmann 1927

[kris99 11]

Feel a bit let down now, my copy says it was found in Old St Paul's church, Baltimore dated 1692, not written by Max Ehrmann in 1927.

[Morts 17]

I looked up this post not having a clue what Desiderata was. It's a real eye opener and just what we need to remind ourselves of life. In fact I'm going to get my daughter to make me a poster, which is what she does, acknowledging the copyright of course.

Thanks to billiej and snowglobe for alerting me to this.

[Jim Hardie 524]

Feel a bit let down now, my copy says it was found in Old St Paul's church, Baltimore dated 1692, not written by Max Ehrmann in 1927.

 

Perhaps that's where Maxie found it.

[andrejuan 10]

Wow that takes me back, we had a copy in the hallway when I was growing up. I think it was etched in brass or copper?? Wonder what happened to it.

[louan 10]

I bought mine at the Cathedral bookshop

[jmdee 10]

In the 70's there was a song made to the words to this, can't remember who it was by though.

[Odd-jobs 10]

In the 70's there was a song made to the words to this, can't remember who it was by though.

 

Les Crane!

It was absolutely an absolutely awful awful toe curling record.

The sad thing is I didn't have to look it up.

Edited July 9, 2015 by Odd-jobs