Ran out of time, before we even began. How long will the road not taken be starved of footprints?
OBEHI VESSEL A.Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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Toxicity isn’t always a harsh tone or a bruise. Often it’s a “this is who I am.” Often it’s a “I’ll change” Void of when.
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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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Fear is a curtain telling you she’s a door walkthrough.
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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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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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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.
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A fair – weathered friend; I am not. I bring my own sunshine.
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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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Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
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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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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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A natural law; ‘forgive them or become them.’ slowly, unnoticeably, surely.
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Every person I failed to forgive, I became.
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You can worry, or you can be wise. You cannot be both, at the same time.
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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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We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.
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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 do not wish upon stars, I hear they fall.
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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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When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.
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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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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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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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