Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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I used to envy the sun, for having seen it all. I was wrong. Left with nothing to see, how bored she must be.
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Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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I have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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I have felt warmth in lies, and coldness in truth. This is how I know that morality, transcends the physicality of temperatures.
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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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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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.
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