Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.
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Related oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its ... MARY OLIVER We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us. We dare not talk of the fire, for ... LUCY H. PEARCE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I'm afraid to go out at night because it's too dark. I'm afraid to try different food because I... ANTHONY T. HINCKS No I did not call in sick to work today No I'm not out hanging with my friends There's no ... COLBIE CAILLAT A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — her... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up... 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THOMAS MERTON Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive. Prede... VERA NAZARIAN Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothin... PHILIP K. DICK Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no re... JOHN LENNON What happiness? Here we have a kind of what they call a multiple choice question. 1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry So my verse has this almost imperceptible thr... MARIO QUINTANA This is your last chance to do the right thing.' 'Do you want to attack first, or will I?' DEREK LANDY what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things. A memory remains just a tiny spark. HAYLEY WILLIAMS life is limited so people will appreciate it because there’s a limit, we would try our best to liv... GOSHO AOYAMA There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experienc... JOHN DENVER Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a r... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I count my blessings as follows: 1) I'm alive. 2) Beauty is in the world all around ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in t... D.H. LAWRENCE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we ... ELLEN DEGENERES So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ... NEIL GAIMAN So the nymphs they spoke, we kissed and laid. By noontime’s hour our love was made.... ROMAN PAYNE I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sai... EDGAR LEE MASTERS This world is dark and it's so hard to breathe... but in this instant, when I laughed along with you... 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Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance an... FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO The Good-Morrow I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? We... JOHN DONNE our love like stepping on to a plane sitting down in a car walking on unknown l... SCOTT MCGOLDRICK The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature.... JACK D. FORBES Wake up naked drinking coffee Making plans to change the world While the world is changing... DAVE MATTHEWS We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would... WENDELL BERRY God has not given us the spirit of fear. He has given us the spirit of Love and a competent mind. ELLEN J. BARRIER Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it ... EDWARD ABBEY I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouth... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS In the world as it is, torn with agonies and dissensions, we need some direction for our souls which... CARYLL HOUSELANDER Pressure knocks at my door A clock ticks and demands its due The lava burns from the floor... JUSTIN WETCH
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JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the sho... JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L... JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. JEANETTE WINTERSON Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,... JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi... JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl... JEANETTE WINTERSON Wallowing is sex for depressives. JEANETTE WINTERSON Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives. JEANETTE WINTERSON I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death,... JEANETTE WINTERSON She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted c... JEANETTE WINTERSON To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. JEANETTE WINTERSON Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to l... JEANETTE WINTERSON Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those thi... JEANETTE WINTERSON My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage sl... JEANETTE WINTERSON Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that h... JEANETTE WINTERSON Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the... JEANETTE WINTERSON To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the i... JEANETTE WINTERSON I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written som... JEANETTE WINTERSON Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough. JEANETTE WINTERSON But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. JEANETTE WINTERSON Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times. JEANETTE CORON A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it... JEANETTE LEBLANC Be gentle. Pay attention. Offer purposeful healing. Seek Equilibrium. Unfreeze, slowly. Stretch your... JEANETTE LEBLANC We are here to love hard and true. Here to give ourselves over to the rush and bliss of it all. Here... JEANETTE LEBLANC To know the hope and the struggle and the stay still and the run away and the come here and the push... JEANETTE LEBLANC I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeo... JEANETTE MACDONALD Do not try quiet my voice. Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl. I am inhabi... JEANETTE LEBLANC Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans ... JEANETTE DESOR Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings c... JEANETTE LEBLANC Been painting ceramics for years, I love it. I am waiting until I finish this project so that I can ... JEANETTE BROWN It's like raping Alice in Wonderland. JEANETTE WILLIAMS If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes. JEANETTE CORON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald... JEANETTE MACDONALD You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to clai... JEANETTE LEBLANC The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. JEANETTE MACDONALD I must have had rocks in my head. JEANETTE MACDONALD I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t... JEANETTE MACDONALD I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep... JEANETTE MACDONALD I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love ... JEANETTE MACDONALD You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love w... JEANETTE MACDONALD & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it. JEANETTE R. Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy. But dar... JEANETTE LEBLANC It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean s... JEANETTE LEBLANC