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.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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When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
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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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Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
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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.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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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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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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