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.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.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
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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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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 have seen humans call for “change” only to bid her go home, and return on a more convenient date.
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Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.
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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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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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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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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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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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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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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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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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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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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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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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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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This year has been heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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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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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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