We are rats We're quicker than cats And we're twice as clever Don't need shoes Don't need socks Don't need soap Don't need clocks Don't need rules Don't need schools We can writhe We can wriggle We can laugh We can giggle We can squeak We can squeal We can fart We can burp We can slobber We can slurp We can poo We can pee We can dribble in the sea We are rats We are alive We will survive
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Related Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in ... نزار قباني Only God is good." "We can make good works, We can be called good folks We can ... MAC CANOZA if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water ... NAYYIRAH WAHEED We can have traders, without them being traitors. We can trade, without trading others. JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn be... WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Fly Generation We stand tall, we stand proud, we are the ‘fly’ generation We thi... SAAHIL PREM If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to oth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Look at me; look at me. Can you see; can you see? I am here; you are there. No more f... DEBASISH MRIDHA we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizes som... SANOBER KHAN The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain... CHARLES BUKOWSKI May We Love Ourselves. May We Love Each Other. May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come Tr... MELIA KEETON-DIGBY Not so, not so, no load of woe Need bring despairing frown; For while we bear it, we can bea... SARAH WILLIAMS Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families, SCOTT STABILE More than being human, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we nee... NURUDEEN USHAWU The Pressure- Maybe one day, after centuries, we can become brilliant gems in c... KEELIE BREANNA Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see? Can we share my ears so you can hea... KAMAND KOJOURI Life can be a process of observing what we are interfering with, rather than interfering w... LUJAN MATUS To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do... BENJAMIN HOFF ~Tonight's Sea~ Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze ... RACHEL NICOLE WAGNER But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. W... ISAAC MARION Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said... DAVE BARRY We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who Comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the pla... DON HENLEY If we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours. That's how love works. It... ROB BELL We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a des... BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. RAINER MARIA RILKE A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE What are you doing?” she asked. “Getting naked.” “What the hells for?�... G.A. AIKEN We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey. KAMAND KOJOURI My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise. KAMAND KOJOURI We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow. But, if we are wise, we know that... AL GREEN and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we ... AUDRE LORDE O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then wha... KAMAND KOJOURI Without a doubt, ... ELTON BRAND They can take tomorrow and the plans we made They can take the music that we'll never play LEONA LEWIS We can all take pictures but not everyone can capture the beauty that's usually hidden in plain view... SANJO JENDAYI Why We Tell Stories I Because we used to have leaves and on damp days ... LISEL MUELLER In this space, We do raw We do loud hearts & truthful art We do ... BRYONIE WISE Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jes... GREEN DAY We are broken. Our ways are apart. Still we laugh together and taunt. We fight and get hur... IRFA ADAM The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we... A.E. HOUSMAN We can all take pictures but not everyone can capture the beauty that's usually hidden in plain view... SANJO JENDAYI We can be "heroes" just for one day. - "Heroes" DAVID BOWIE We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar. If you can roar, roar for others. M.L. SHANAHAN there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' JENNY DOWNHAM Faith is not to believe Or pray that Providence Will help a chieve Anything we wan... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these... AMIE KAUFMAN It's ... ARNAZ BATTLE The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. T.S. ELIOT ...But although the rules are vague And widely disregarded now Some precepts remain: live ... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Now We Think Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill us. There m... ESSEX HEMPHILL All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other mat... NEIL GAIMAN If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. --BUMPER STIC... DARYNDA JONES My secret friend, Oh, take me to the river. My secret friend, So we can swim forever. İAMX Each day, each moment is a step into the unknown. How can we feel anything but amazem... IVAN M. GRANGER We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with s... T.S. ELIOT Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated Truth is th... JORDAN B. PETERSON And brilliant days come alive, with you, around but the things we d... ANDREA KOEHLE JONES If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to... VERA NAZARIAN We too can repair our cracks with gold And glow again. Crazed by life, More beautiful... SCOTT HASTIE The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. ... JACK GILBERT when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI Bleeding for a decade For a decade, We bleed like there is no hell but the earth ARZUM UZUN We Destroy Because We Hate We Hate Because We Fear We Fear Because We Don’t ... JA’SON WHITE Life is unpredictable. We can not tell will happen in a minute. We have no control of tomo... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we... BARACK OBAMA Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybo... DALAI LAMA XIV Everywhere, Everywhere" amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery, ever defen... CHARLES BUKOWSKI True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the min... SRI CHINMOY We will speak for the books." ... "Like the Lorax?" "The Lorax speaks for the trees,"... PAUL ACAMPORA I walked across an empty land I knew the pathway like the back of my hand I felt the earth... BIL KEANE We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, ... KAMAND KOJOURI Time is drowning, Hearts are burning, Heads are rolling, Nothing can save you now, EMORY R. FRIE What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things LINDA PASTAN there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. RUMI Somebody Give us a story Narrate all the places That we’ll never see Give us a... CHARLOTTE WESSELS American Wedding In america, I place my ring on your cock where it belon... ESSEX HEMPHILL We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape th... DALAI LAMA XIV IN WORLD EVERYTHING COST, TIME IS THE THING WE LOST, IN LIFE NEVER FEEL EXHAUST, U CA... MERLIN8THOMAS We were told that if we didn't [contribute], they were going to have to do without the bleachers and... CAROL PAGE In the hours waking, when we're still all still, and you can hear the floorboards creaking... DAVE MATTHES I write poetry, worry, smile, laugh sleep continue for a while just like most of... CHARLES BUKOWSKI soulsThat we might break these molds And free our restless souls Start to believe Tha... DAVID GRAY This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI Sometimes, when I am sad, I am not sad for myself. I am sad for the world, I am sad ... WORDIONS They’re not really homes. More like houses where we sleep. Where we eat—if we’re lu... CHELSEA FINE Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How w... A.W. TOZER Let me in the wall You've built around We can light a match And burn it down Let... THE CIVIL WARS When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He jus... LANG LEAV We're nothing but human. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the w... ANONYMOUS ... You can colour your eyes… You can put on your skin tattoo… ... - ... DEYTH BANGER One of the greatest gifts That life can give to anyone Is the very special love that families... CRAIG S. TUNKS and we laugh and laugh and all I know is at this moment I feel like I can do anything... KIRSTEN SMITH WOMAN: Hi, where are your copies of Breaking Dawn? I can't see any on the shelf. BOOKSELLER: So... JEN CAMPBELL The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know. Satisfying the NEED T... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him,... GWENDOLYN BROOKS
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mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit... FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions. FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot... FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co... FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ... FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed. FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is... FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir... FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
... FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far... FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,... FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her. FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the... FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action. FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for... FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de... FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving... FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. FRANCIS PICABIA