A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
OBEHI VESSEL A.And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
-
-
A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
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. -
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. -
“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
No. I do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
I used to believe that living is doing, moving, getting. But, there is life in staying still. A bird is a bird even when she isn’t flying.
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. -
Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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 seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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. -
There is no such thing as ‘little’ acts of kindness. Every kind act, is grand powerful. Meant to take up space.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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. -
‘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.’
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
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.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
Everyone claims they want the truth. Just not in all her bright entirety. We’d rather she visit in dim shades of light, that won’t hurt our eyes.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
OBEHI VESSEL A. -
This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
OBEHI VESSEL A.