Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Patience is not the ability to wait. It is, how we wait; an attitude so unruffled, that none can tell if we’re waiting or not.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
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Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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And now, we look back at what was normal, and we find that normal isn’t always good or right; No. Normal, is whatever has been spent with us, the longest time. And that in itself is not a valid reason for it to stay.
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No, I’m not one to go in pursuit of happiness. It is common knowledge, is it not? That what is chased after will run.
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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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What’s lost, can be found. What’s broken, may be fixed. But what lives in denial of either of these will remain as it is.
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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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Spiritual or religious. Which will you be? Society, asks of me. Inscribe my name on the list. I said, of which has more compassion in it.
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Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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I no longer ask humans, for a definition of love. For, they tend to force on her, the traits of those who have either treated them well or not at all.
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‘Why are we here?’ I inquired of my body, spirit, and soul. ‘Here to do whatever feels good.’ Said the first. ‘Here to do what feels good.’ Said the second. ‘Here to choose.’ Said the third. ‘Between both.’
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