Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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How abstract we humans sound, when we say these are dark times. As though it isn’t in our hands that paint our times.
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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
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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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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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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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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