poems etc.

[undtheta2000]

A poem/ saying close to my heart- On my initiation pillowcase from my big sis. The poem was passed down in my family, and continues to be so as I noticed it this fall at initiation.

Dance like nobody's watching
Sing like nobody's listening
Love like you can't be hurt
Live like it's heaven on Earth

[ThetaPrincess24]

I have just purchased a copy of We who Wear Kites Volume I (i found Volume II but i cant afford that one right now but I may splurge and buy it anyway with my next paycheck if still available), and decided to show my husband my Sixty Years in Kappa Alpha Theta book (courtesy of Patti and still many thanks to her!). When i was showing him some pictures in it, i came across a page with this poem I'd like to share:


A cup of Theta memories I hold,
Stored in our hearts through many passing years,
A wine it isof very sun-rise gold,
Distilled of love, of laughter and of tears.
Fragrant of youth its fresh aromas rise,
Of girlhood dreams, where Friendship wears a guise
More regal e'en that Love, yet will essay
The little homely tasks of every day.
And in its glowing depths I seem to see
How many faces! With unshadowed eyes
That since have looked on sorrows' mystery
Or smiled at death beneath far alien skies.
A cup of Theta memories I hold,
A wine of youth, of very sun-rise gold.

Clara Lynn Fitch, Kappa Chapter

[DominoTheta]

Found some quotes that were passed along in our family. I beg for your forgiveness in advance for the typos I'm going to make trying to copy these out of a scrapbook.


<> You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.(Winston Churchill)

<>After awhile you learn that what you really are is all the experiences and all the thoughts you've ever had and all the people that have touched your life, however briefly. (Jennifer L. Nelson)

<>The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky
No higher than the soul is high.
(Edna St. Vincent Malloy)

<>The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards. (Paul W. "Bear" Bryant)

<>The burning of a little straw may hide the stars, but the stars will outlast the smoke. (Voltaire)

<>We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

<>It isn't your circumstances, but the way you respond to those circumstances that determines the condition of your life. (Fred Wolfe)

<>And then he thinks he knows the hills where his life rose and the sea where it goes. (Matthew Arnold)

<>The best way to predict the future is to create it.

<>Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. (Napoleon Hill)

<>The heart is happiest when it beats for others.

<>Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for others. (Henry David Thoreau)

AND...my personal all-time FAVORITE quote...

What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but if that drop were not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. (Mother Teresa)

[ThetaPrincess24]

I came across this one in the We Who Wear Kites Volume II:


Today I understood
How life could exist,
Every possible way
Through trust and security
And true love never failed me.
Long awaited joys overcame me, and
Out of sisters' hearts came my hope
Vanishing not for even an instant, but
Established for a lifetime.

[ThetaDancer]

Oh I really like the ThetaLove one above.
This thread makes me happy everytime I read it!

[ThetaPrincess24]

I got this in an email and I thought I'd share it


What is Theta?

Kites that soar forever upward,
Aims which tug toward noble highs,
Pansies for remembrance always,
Pride a century justifies,
All this and more is Theta!

Alliance born of sisters sharing,
Love unending through the years,
Precious ritual charged with meaning,
Hands held fast through joy and tears,
All this and more is Theta!

Twin stars' light dispelling darkness,
Hearts that care and thus enfold,
Enduring wall of chain-linked friendships,
Treasured thoughts of black and gold,
All this, but so much more is Theta!