In moments of despair, take inventory, what is the worst that can happen in this situation? Then trust that the worst does not happen, for it seldom does. You will outlive many worst-case scenarios in your lifetime. Andreas Simic
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- Tastes of childhood seldom has any comparison -
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Don’t sacrifice your dreams… because someone elder than you has, for a moderate life.
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Don’t sacrifice your dreams… because someone elder than you has, for a moderate life.
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Alone to be held, alone to worry, alone to calm, alone to love, and alone in brightness of dark.
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Humanity's hope is held in oneness.
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Speak less thunder, wield more lightning.
—Native American proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch, keywords: Native American, nature, power, lightning, thunder, speech, speak, speaking
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Mathematics: A field of study for numerical addicts.
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The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the 'common crowd,'
and they said his poems incited recitals far too loud.
('An Obscenity Trial' by Michael R. Burch, keywords: poets, poems, poetry)
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These useless dreams, alas!
Over fields of wilted grass
winds whisper as they pass.
—Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
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' When walking through the mind-field of despair, always watch your step? "
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The hands that held me tremble.
The arms that lifted, fall.
Angelic flesh, now parchment,
is held together with gauze.
But her undimmed eyes still embrace me;
there infinity can be found.
I can almost believe such unfathomable love
will still reach me, underground.
('The Greatest of These' by Michael R. Burch)
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There are those who constantly seek to cheat death . . . only to recall that life is seldom fair.
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I sometimes walk with head held high /
a prideful, unrepentant guy -
while you live humble as the silent b /
in subtlety.
(from the poem "Soliloquy to My Future Self")
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Everyone goes through something.
But that something is often weighted differently
on the shoulders of the bearer.
Compassion is the only emotion,
that levels the field.
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8. Poetry is man's heart and soul uniting to bless others, while temporarily shielding searching souls against this dark world's poison tipped arrows.
Robert J. Lindley
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Truth is the shield of the brave: put up your fight!
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I've often held the belief that money
is a tool . . . yet all to often, my tool box is empty.
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Sometimes soul searching is all that’s needed to become unweeded, giving yourself space to become spiritually yielded.
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"Marriage is like a football player and a baseball player on a soccer field trying to play hockey and never making a hole in one."
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They tap phone calls and read messages and always keep an eye is fielding.
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Some days you’re the windshield, and some days you’re the bug...
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"and in the end,
slowly and deliberately we will be obliterated,
from the memory of earth,
from the hearts of people who have held us dearly,
and descended into oblivion"
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blades of grass, hands held high, applauded the sun’s performance,
it was brilliant!
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Satanic lies go splat as bugs on the windshield of God's glorious truth moving ever swiftly to the fulfillment of God's holy purposes.
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One of the great pains of peace is to see the heroes of a thousand battles retreat to a thousand bottles at the doctor's and the barman's. In the snares of alcoholism and PTSD, they who survived the battlefield now fall in the bottle-field
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I am a proud African, I will not substitute my beautiful ebony, It is strengths, my tissue is nature's shield from the sun, It radiates and glows, racist are ignorant of many things especially Geography.
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I endlessly reach into the past; I seldom seek out the future; and I struggle to stay in the present.
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At a troubled time when the bedeviling binds on our minds have landed us in a lampoonery of a life and we move boustrophedon between boisterous buffooneries and cacophonous contumelies, literature, if not a splendid cynosure to our goals, is, I daresay, a salubrious salve to our souls that seldom cease to seethe.
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On the grievous battlefield the warriors whispers back that we are the chorus voices of the union on wings of victory.
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