Chris Abani
Related C. JOYBELL C. We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Gestures, lines, soft loops and gentle slashed dance around, in and out of the painted surfaces with... STEVEN MILLER C. JOYBELL C. She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ JEANETTE CORON FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. People think in such grand terms-unconditional love, changing the world, doing the impossible. They ... MARTY RUBIN JEFFREY FRY I am but a message in a world full of messengers NICHOLAS JOHNSON Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG ASSEGID HABTEWOLD RICHARD GERE PATRICK ROTHFUSS ANDREA HAIRSTON J.D. SALINGER GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN NEIL GAIMAN The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH DEYTH BANGER To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. KAREN M. MCMANUS BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA C. JOYBELL C. CRAIG GROESCHEL Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN There’s a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs ... ROBIN SACREDFIRE SIR THOMAS BROWNE GRAEME SIMSION ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH SUFJAN STEVENS WILMA MANKILLER AMIT RAY That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT CHRIS COLFER CHRIS COLFER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL J.R.R. TOLKIEN I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS TRENTON LEE STEWART You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.KAREN L. SYED KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU POPE JOHN PAUL II ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH WINSTON CHURCHILL DEYTH BANGER When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... AMIT RAY FELIX DENNIS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... ENOCK MAREGESI When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS DEBASISH MRIDHA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of ou... CHRIS PRENTISS That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CAROLINE GEORGE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER J.A. REDMERSKI KILROY J. OLDSTER ALBERT CAMUS C. JOYBELL C. ANTHONY T. HINCKS MANDY HALE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Almost everything important in life is invisible. NADJA SAM C. JOYBELL C. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
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In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me". 
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