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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.


Arthur C. Coxe

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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone
JOHN CIARDI You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need...
NICK HORNBY people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. ...
WOODY ALLEN To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Th...
WOODY ALLEN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
EDWARD DAHLBERG To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination
CARDINALDE BERNIS Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why ...
RAINN WILSON I dont have a crush on anyone easily.
ANUSHKA SHARMA Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept o...
JAMES T. KIRK [D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, l...
STEPHEN LEVINE But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and lov...
NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.
A QUE C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
COOKIE MONSTER Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD We read to know we're not alone.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suf...
VICTOR SHAMAS The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet
EUGENE DELACROIX Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
ZAHI HAWASS This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
ROBERTA FLACK At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth...
PAULO COELHO How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is be...
EDWARD JUDSON I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER

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C. JOYBELL C. Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ...
C. JOYBELL C. What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C. Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C. When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C. I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C. For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C. Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C. You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to fi...
C. JOYBELL C. It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people...
C. JOYBELL C. Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs t...
C. JOYBELL C. I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C. If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned...
C. JOYBELL C. In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am alr...
C. JOYBELL C. She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew...
C. JOYBELL C. They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of t...
C. JOYBELL C. You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al...
C. JOYBELL C. We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte...
C. JOYBELL C. You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C. I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage cer...
C. JOYBELL C. You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that...
C. JOYBELL C. A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside you...
C. JOYBELL C. People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't ...
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