A listening heart can take away stress. A loving and friendly hug can heal and bless.

Don’t be adamant; don’t make up your mind about all the things that don’t even have anything at all to do with you. Don’t be too quick to define right and wrong. Life has a...

The first step towards obtaining wisdom is to acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of God and to be subject wholly to His will.

Love is there when one lives in the beauty and goodness of others.

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

So much to see, so much to do.So much adventure just waiting for you.

This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen; but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen.

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.

Let stars brighten your eye.

Bloom to the fullest along the cutting edges of life.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Live with guts feeling but not with reasoning.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given...

Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance.

Life is not a bootcamp for heaven, but life is a heaven for spiritual procession.

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean...

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely.

IthakaAs you set out for Ithakahope the voyage is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you...

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

Life is an experiment and experience.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

An intelligent enemy,’ he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, ‘rather than a foolish friend.’ Or, ‘He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.’ Or, the favourite...

Life is always blissful and simple, only we make it difficult and impossible.

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.

Life is not about what you are but what you are going to be.

I recreate myself; that is my only power.

Open the doors of your heart and they will come…And for every cruel arrow,Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.

Forget the place you’re trying to get to and see the beauty in right now…

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

Every moment is going bypart of life is saying goodbye.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Wisdom’s Way to Wonder?Yes, Your Majesty? Wiseoneder, What say you of days and nights?Days and nights, Your Majesty, appear to the bright to be filled with light; Light being dark way out of sight.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter...

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

If you won’t improve yourself, who will?

Life is really simple if we know the purpose of life.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

The writer who offends nobody has nothing to say.

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

My next breath may very well be in your lungs. Store it wisely, because my life depends on it.

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever...

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today’s version of you, before they judge you on yesterday’s news.

I wouldn’t advise making a four-year commitment to eventually land an $8.00/hour job. Skip college. Read Wikipedia for free instead.

Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and...

A Guardian is only as strong as its Muse.