When we feel the clown, when we have been played, if we have lived by heart, acted out of compassion, we are the substance of the play, rather than merely being played.
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Related More than being human, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we nee... NURUDEEN USHAWU We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade; Since first beneath the chestnut-tree... CAROLINE NORTON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played i... TOBA BETA The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. ... JACK GILBERT When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, when video games target Medicine and Education, NATASHA TSAKOS A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a <... KAMAND KOJOURI In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved<... 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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON How are we going to get out of here?" "Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan." "... DEREK LANDY Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums, Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,<... ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him,... GWENDOLYN BROOKS RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN We have eyes and we have nerveses We have tails we have teeth You'll all get what you dese... NEIL GAIMAN I WANT her though, to take the same from me. She touches me as if I were herself, her own. D.H. LAWRENCE When we understand people; when we understand situations; when we understand what matters... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I walked across an empty land I knew the pathway like the back of my hand I felt the earth... BIL KEANE When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. A... SHERMAN ALEXIE If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to oth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. I ca... W.B. YEATS (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves. We then spend our lives looking for Him<... KAMAND KOJOURI there are some poems that we leave behind some that leave us behind while some ... SANOBER KHAN and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we ... AUDRE LORDE We have teeth and we have tails We have tails we have eyes We were here before you fell NEIL GAIMAN Toys tossed on the floor Hand prints on the wall Slamming of the door And footsteps down t... GLORIA BABB We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape th... DALAI LAMA XIV How little we understand of the gifts we have been given or the shape of the path we ... HARLEY KING If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve bu... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfe... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, ... STEPHEN SCHWARTZ It started when we were little kids. Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands<... ANTHONY KIEDIS This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Weve poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things h... ROBERT REDFORD When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. RUMI when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back T.S. ELIOT No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size W... SHEL SILVERSTEIN We are broken. Our ways are apart. Still we laugh together and taunt. We fight and get hur... IRFA ADAM We grow old without knowing the reason. We build the walls for no good reason. We start th... ANTHONY T. HINCKS We are rats We're quicker than cats And we're twice as clever Don't need shoes ... JAMES FRANCIS WILKINS The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... O smile, going where? O upturned look: new, warm, receding surge of the heart--; alas, we ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Our bodies knock and we pretend like we can't hear They knock to tell us to ... MALEBO SEPHODI Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow ge... JIM MORRISON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL kisses explode when... someone believes in me when my heart cries out ... SANOBER KHAN We're nothing but human. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the w... ANONYMOUS You're a rule person," he said. "My sister was a cheater. It sort of became necessary." "S... SARAH DESSEN why is it that when the story ends we begin to feel all of it RUPI KAUR When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours. That's how love works. It... ROB BELL When your soul and mine have left our bodies and we are burried alongside each other, OMAR KHAYYáM How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how t... JULIE METZ I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up... JOHN MCDERMOTT An angel for some, a demon for some, for me, it’s heart of the one. Never want to h... ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH If I be the first of us to die, Let grief not blacken long your sky. Be bold yet modest in you... NICHOLAS EVANS We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers... ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, W... LOUIS MACNEICE I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouth... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in t... D.H. LAWRENCE Judge me not, by my faith judge me not, by my religion judge me not, by my anger that... MIRZA SHARAFAT HUSSAIN BEIGH But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the c... J.M. BARRIE When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you i... BERNHARD SCHLINK We were told that if we didn't [contribute], they were going to have to do without the bleachers and... CAROL PAGE Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin... PETER KREEFT Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow. But, if we are wise, we know that... AL GREEN When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He jus... LANG LEAV For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We Have a Chance To Save Lives If We Don't Take It We May Regret It Like We Did<... WIDAD AKREYI When clouds of pain loom in the sky When a shadow of sadness flickers by When a tear finds... JAVED AKHTAR Sometimes, when I am sad, I am not sad for myself. I am sad for the world, I am sad ... WORDIONS Now faith is not what we hereafter have we have a world resting on nothing Rest... SUSAN HOWE Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to suspect that it is merely a dream, and wa... RENé DESCARTES We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a des... BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS COMPASSION ALERT: As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by ligh... KAMIL ALI Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do... BENJAMIN HOFF The Weight of One Feather" Given. Many fear death Because they already SUZY KASSEM I’d rather be a heart, keeping my body alive and well although I tend to get lost someti... HKL I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we left footprints when we passed by,... MIKE A. LANCASTER Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and... LANGDON SMITH a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done fo... RUPI KAUR that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the... AESCHYLUS Let’s get out of here.” “Where are we going?” “You’ll see. BECCA FITZPATRICK The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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