life poems for teenagers

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit



Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington



A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler



If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen



What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown



On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 2



The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson



So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time. ~N.J. Rubenking



Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum



My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand. ~Thich Nhat Hanh



What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785



I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. ~Henny Youngman



Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ~Greg Egan, "Distress"



Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. ~James A. Garfield



A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad



Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. ~Maya Patel



The secret affinity between gambling and the desert: the intensity of gambling reinforced by the presence of the desert all around the town. The air-conditioned freshness of the gaming rooms, as against the radiant heat outside. The challenge of all the artificial lights to the violence of the sun's rays. Night of gambling sunlit on all sides; the glittering darkness of these rooms in the middle of the desert. Gambling itself is a desert form, inhuman, uncultured, initiatory, a challenge to the natural economy of value, a crazed activity on the fringes of exchange. But it too has a strict limit and stops abruptly; its boundaries are exact, its passion knows no confusion. Neither the desert nor gambling are open areas; their spaces are finite and concentric, increasing in intensity toward the interior, toward a central point, be it the spirit of gambling or the heart of the desert - a privileged, immemorial space, where things lose their shadow, where money loses its value, and where the extreme rarity of traces of what signals to us there leads men to seek the instantaneity of wealth. ~Jean Baudrillard



To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness