Poet Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it.

Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.