Poems List

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Live to learn, learn to laugh and laugh to live.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

Don't hold back when you know you can go forward.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Life, like a merry-go-round, may make you dizzy but you have to hold on even in the hardest of times

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

He who awakens is conscious in Dreamland.

I write music with an exclamation point

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

If life was all about preparing for the worst.... We won't be prepared for anything

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.