#life

"Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me."

"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."

"if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you're down, smile with all your might."

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

"I have a doctorate degree from the School of Hard Knocks. I studied door-to-door salesmanship. This was before the doorbell was invented."

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."

"Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism."

"The Poet's Mind In so many ways I walk ablaze in a maze,my eyes in a glaze, my mind in a daze,this poem's just a phrase in the latency phase,rephrase, rephrase, rephrase..."

"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."

"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."

"I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win."

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir"

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."

"Marriage Advice [10w] Marry a man above youand a woman beneath you."

"Pedestals [10w] People should not be placed on pedestals unless they're stuffed."

"Ferdinand VII of Spain {Couplet} He who can false loyalty feignshall sit twice upon the throne of Spain."

"Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme."

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then closesWithin a dream."

"Some men have actually died from laughing. That's so funny I fear for my own life."

"Action expresses priorities."