The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
Daisaku Ikeda
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda. DAISAKU IKEDA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable... POPE PAUL VI Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr... HENRY BESTON Having mercy is an act of love and a gift of the Holy Spirit. JAIME CONTRERAS I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. HENRY BOLINGBROKE Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, ... LINTON KWESI JOHNSON Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m... MAYA ANGELOU You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, p... ARTHUR ERICKSON I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work... OCTAVIO PAZ Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people.... WILLIAM LANDAY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.” “Oh?” I turn at the wais... J.A. REDMERSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene... ARISTOTLE Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh... C. JOYBELL C. i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into a... NORMAN O. BROWN His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �... J.A. REDMERSKI Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA While each region and each airline has its own set of challenges, none are unique and none are insur... TOM MURPHY The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and hea... BERNARD BERENSON The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS
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