Escritas - Poems List

Chuck Palahniuk

People don't want their lives

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

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Maria Montessori

The teacher must derive not

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Human mind can grasp everything

Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!

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The Hitopadesa

A feverish display of over-zeal,

A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.

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E.C. Stedman

Poetry is an art, and

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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The Hitopadesa

Not to attend at the

Not to attend at the door of the wealthy, and not to use the voice of petition?these constitute the best life of a man.

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Dion Petrig

I find it funny how

I find it funny how people pick you flaws to try boos there confidence. But when you can't break the rock baby, your picking on the wrong mountain! Keep hustling', keep bustlin' and your true colours will show...

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John Locke

The actions of men are

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Steve Martini

The problem most people have

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Science says that there are

Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!

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The Hitopadesa

Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man

Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?

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Albert Einstein

So long as there are

So long as there are men there will be wars.

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Confucius

The essence of knowledge is,

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

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Chase Leblanc

Day does not forestall nightmares

Day does not forestall nightmares - Night is not needed for dreams - There is no better time than here - No better place than now -

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The Hitopadesa

A husband is the chief

A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no ornaments.

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Marilyn Manson

We live in a society

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

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Confucius

He who learns but does

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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Kelly Marrapodi-Munsell (1968-2011)

Twins are born on the

Twins are born on the same day physically and die on the same day spiritually.

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The Hitopadesa

Prosperity is acquired by exertion,

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion.

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Leonard Bernstein

Any great work of art

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

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Mark Twain

I was born modest. Not

I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.

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Kelly Marrapodi-Munsell (1968-2011)

When a twin dies, the

When a twin dies, the survivor's spirit goes with her.

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The Hitopadesa

Even a blockhead may respect

Even a blockhead may respect inspire, So long as he is suitably attired; A fool may gain esteem among the wise, So long as he has sense to hold his tongue.

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