A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Toxicity isn’t always a harsh tone or a bruise. Often it’s a “this is who I am.” Often it’s a “I’ll change” Void of when.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
-
-
I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Toxicity isn’t always a harsh tone or a bruise. Often it’s a “this is who I am.” Often it’s a “I’ll change” Void of when.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
I have felt warmth in lies, and coldness in truth. This is how I know that morality, transcends the physicality of temperatures.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
I used to envy the sun, for having seen it all. I was wrong. Left with nothing to see, how bored she must be.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Doubt has evolved. From a ‘what if I can’t?’ To a ‘what if I can? And it doesn’t last?’
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Every human carries a heavy past. But the good thing about what can be carried, is that it can also be put down.
OBEHI VESSEL A.