Hearts starve as well as bodies,
give us bread, but give us roses
– James Oppenheim
This phrase is part of the lyrics of John Denver’s song “Bread And Roses”
“As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
a million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray
are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses.
For the people hear us singing, bread and roses, bread and roses.
As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men.
For they are women’s children and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweetened from birth until life closes.
Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread, but give us roses.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days
for the rising of the women means the rising of the race .
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
but the sharing of life’s glories, bread and roses, bread and roses”.
I guess we all from time time feel our hearts starving. The important thing is what we choose to do in those moments….
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Take good care of your body. It’s the only place where you have to live.