“ Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tire… Charles Bukowski
“ We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want… Stasi Eldredge
“ It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living. Glen Duncan
“ Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you’re faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING! Tanya Masse
“ Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born. Ross Macdonald
“ We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river, those same experience… B.J. Neblett
“ You'll let him talk you out of your dreams. That's what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams." "Not me," Katie said. "Jack would talk me into my dreams. Patti Callahan Henry
“ Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions. Elizabeth George
“ Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen. Elif Shafak
“ To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living. Manoj Arora
“ Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen. Dee Henderson
“ There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles. Thomas Lux
“ Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly. Bhagat Kabir
“ I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a ligh… Abby Musgrove
“ Life in all its resiliency, beauty and strength is sometimes eclipsed by its unquestionable transient frailty. Today we are alive…tomorrow is not promised. And it seems, the evil that lurks in the sha… Jason Versey
“ Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once. Shannon A. Thompson
