Escritas — Poems List

Khalil Gibran

One may not reach the

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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Vikrant Parsai

Be careful with whom you

Be careful with whom you share your secrets. Don’t forget your best friend has a best friend, and your best friend’s best friend – also has a best friend.

102

Moses Hadas

I have read your book

I have read your book and much like it.

42

Vikrant Parsai

Be an inspiration to others

Be an inspiration to others who have a negative outlook on life. Hold their hands and guide them toward the light.

79

Vikrant Parsai

Are you angry because they

Are you angry because they lied or are you angry because you believed it?

127

Khalil Gibran

The chemist who can extract

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

224

Vikrant Parsai

An educated man without ambition

An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education.

102

William Saroyan

Good people are good because

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

117

Vikrant Parsai

A woman can be judged

A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.

118

Khalil Gibran

Much of your pain is

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

186

Vikrant Parsai

A skilled teacher and a

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

165

Oprah Winfrey

What we're all striving for

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

27

Vikrant Parsai

You know you are old

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

91

Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

121

G. Gordon Liddy

Obviously crime pays, or there'd

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

36

Volodymyr Knyr

The thicker, the sicker.

48

Gerald G. Jampolsky

You can be right or

You can be right or you can be happy.

43

Tallulah Bankhead

Let's not quibble! I'm the

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

128

Gerald G. Jampolsky

The best way to navigate

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

36

Moses Hadas

This book fills a much-needed

This book fills a much-needed gap.

28

Tallulah Bankhead

No man worth his salt,

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

64

Gerald G. Jampolsky

A truly creative person rids

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

21

William Saroyan

Try as much as possible

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

125

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Through our willingness to help

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

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