Poems List

#RockBottom is wherever you are when you decide to start reaching for the stars again! #NBL

Sometimes it really is worth it to look at yourself in the mirror and earnestly ask yourself...#isthatthebestyougot?

Wouldn't it be nice if Love, Joy and #PEACE hounded you the way negativity does? You might actually make different decisions in life.

Sexism is #bigotryPRIME. All others are born of it.

Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating.

LGBT members of society need not prove their legitimacy but only live significant lives that bring us all together.

The purpose of #wealth is to #heal and not to #hoard. In your selfishness with your wealth you renounce your claim to it.

There would be no energy crisis if man knew how to effectively utilize the power inside of women!

For my part, seventeen years after my first PhD coursework, I still feel ill at ease with my grasp of many issues, and I am fairly confident that this is not just a question of limited intellect.

You don't need an iron fist if you aren't a pacifist.

Economics is hard. Really hard. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-boggingly hard it is. I mean you may think doing the Sunday Times crossword is difficult, but that’s just peanuts to economics. And because it is so hard, people shouldn’t blithely go shooting their mouths off about it, and pretending like it’s so easy. In fact, we would all be better off if we just ignored these clowns.

Writers who have not taken a year of PhD coursework in a decent economics department (and passed their PhD qualifying exams), cannot meaningfully advance the discussion on economic policy.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels...

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao...

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout...

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning...

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm...

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent...

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.