Anthony Liccione quote: "The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted."

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
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We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
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As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
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The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
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The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
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Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again...
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We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.
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There are people that will give you time when it shines, then fade away when it shades.
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Even a rock moves on.
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Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shar...
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There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more y...
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To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.
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The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.
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There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, a...
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Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy...
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Being quiet is the loudest remark.
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Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
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Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that...
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Love has no number.
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I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction...
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So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise.
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If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut.
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Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.
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Fear
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Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break o...
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I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father th...
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A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.
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Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if on...
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Many never realize they always had the key in their pocket, so they die at the locked door, never re...
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We are the road that winds down a sound mind, then slips into the sea.
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Capture your youth, while you can.
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Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flie...
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Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!
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There are a world of answers, outside the loop.
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I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with...
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What you see will hurt you; what you don't see will hurt you.
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Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it on...
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A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down.
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When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?
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Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.
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As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.
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The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do.
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To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.
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A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.
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Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.
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Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.
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Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of you...
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A beautiful world with ugly people; an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.
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The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.
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Which is colder, the hand or the gun?
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We are all innocent, until we die.
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Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, d...
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Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war ...
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Everyone has their own boat, it's a matter of pulling it out of the sand, and putting it in the wate...
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People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.
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The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.
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She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, s...
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Sometimes the wind will take you, or sometimes the wind will carry you.
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Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!
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A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.
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Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing...
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A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive, but a colorful heart with love, tru...
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It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that ...
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A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.
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She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'...
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Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.
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Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.
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At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious...
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It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.
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When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.
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It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in searc...
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The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.
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Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you unde...
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We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
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We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while o...
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Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.
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Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are...
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Today I seen a dove collide into the sunset, on the way to heaven and a ruined raven chewing on deat...
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Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.
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I often wonder, in a catfight, when one doesn't want to fight, if the other cat calls it a pussy.
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There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was o...
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Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being fr...
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My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going for...
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If ever I create a website, I'll call it Two-Face Book, and I'll invite everyone to it, it will be a...
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Money spent, will never out value spent time.
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Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away...
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We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.
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We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its contex...
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These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.
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Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterd...
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If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
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Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debri...
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Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smo...
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Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too shor...
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It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh...
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A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
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Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writ...
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There are no sides in suicide.
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Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!
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To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the peopl...
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And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the hou...
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And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir...
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It takes time, or does time take it?
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Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at t...
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The new dumb, is now wisdom.
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The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.
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If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.
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After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.
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Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through ...
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A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.
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If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.
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Don't look at the present storm, but look to the Son coming.
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She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.
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A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.
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They have their opinions, but we have the answers.
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It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.
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They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore t...
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Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.
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No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.
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All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand ...
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Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.
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If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not ...
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If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into...
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Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.
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She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as so...
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The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.
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Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how th...
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Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and st...
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May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
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You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.
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It was uncontrollable, overpowered by others, these colors within me, staring out at a black and whi...
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One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, ...
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Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for ...
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The darkness always lies.
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I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.
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Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.
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Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
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Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.
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People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.
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There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that ...
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Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing...
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Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance...
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Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
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Life turns, and returns death. Where death digs its claws into the grave only to pull out life, as a...
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Key the mind, and set the soul free.
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The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across t...
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Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth wil...
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Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.
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Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?
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No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.
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Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.
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It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulne...
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A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.
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This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did w...
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Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fi...
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Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.
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Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flam...
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To cop-out, is not a way to cope.
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Eat, and the world will eat with you; starve, and the world will eat you.
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When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped fl...
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The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?
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Too often, we love for the wrong reasons, when we think the right one comes along.
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It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.
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She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her last...
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With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is gettin...
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An arrogant man needs to humble himself as a boy, to be a gentleman.
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Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow.
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In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.
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As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.
As a man, I run away from...
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Simplicity is, as simple as you make it.
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When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The p...
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They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.
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Do not feed your motives, just feed the bears.
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I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.
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Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.
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Many people are trying hard to be invincible, and most of the time they fail invisible, while few fi...
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People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, ...
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When you walk with trash, you end up smelling the same.
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In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.
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God always knows our conscious, if it's bad He will stricken it, if it's good He will keep it clear,...
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The only walls that talk, are the white ones.
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The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and be...
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Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your gl...
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Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.
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Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.
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Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.
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Words are dead, until action brings them life.
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One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.
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Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.
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Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of a...
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Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud...
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As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.
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I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.
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What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your...
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When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of m...
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If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.
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I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.
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Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our...
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People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
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Love makes everything possible.
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The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.

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The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.

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