#life

"Poetry and Love [10w] Poetry and love are two faces of the same coin."

"Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt."

"Hearts Hearts of hope and of promiseHearts filled with dreams and whim,These are the hearts of loversUnguarded,Standing out on a limb.Hearts unmended and brokenHearts scarred to stone and steel,These are the hearts of loversArmored,Being unable to feel."

"It's better to burn out than to fade away."

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."

"I give 110% in love. If that seems absurd, just know that I used presidential voting machines to calculate that number. It's totally legit."

"Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths."

"The State of the World Attests to This: [10w] Common people are too easily manipulated or stupid to vote."

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."

"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding."

"She said love her or be tortured by her. I replied, "Torture would be less painful."She didn't realize that I'm a true romantic."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana."

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

"The 'Ugly' Poet [10w] Poets develop cleverness with wordsto compensate for their unattractiveness."

"The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon."

"Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us..."

"Jealousy [10w] Jealousy's like being reprimanded for a crime you haven't committed."

"Only a fool would say they’re not a fool. Well, I am not a fool, which is why I say I am a fool."