Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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.
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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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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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Doubt has evolved. From a ‘what if I can’t?’ To a ‘what if I can? And it doesn’t last?’
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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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I have seen men, choose violence time after time. And in turn, I have seen violence choose them.
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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.
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There is no such thing as ‘little’ acts of kindness. Every kind act, is grand powerful. Meant to take up space.
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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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Ears quick to listen. Lips, slow to speak. I take, so that I may give.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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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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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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It seems to be, that there are dual reasons why justice is rarely given. One, too little evidence. Two, too much.
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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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Learning is easy. Unlearning is tricky. The former is knowledge gained. The latter is knowledge gained, recognized as a loss.
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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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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.
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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 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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