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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
-Kalidasa-

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.
-.Bertrand Russell.-

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It is amazing,
that one blink of an eye,
can change a life-time...

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You can only learn the importance of freedom once you have lost it...

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And we get told by a blinkered lord, discrimination brought it 'round
He says they've got no money, he says they've got no jobs
Well neither have we, and we don't see that it gives them the right to rob

It seems we stand convicted, accused of being White
It seems that we are criminals, for we're not scared to fight
There'll be no surrender, to all our people's foes
We'll fight until the victory, we'll find the way to go

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Call this democracy, the land of free speech
Equality and freedom is what they preach
Here's the reality, an alien state
Locking up patriots behind camp gates

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QUOTES | I really love them and have a bunch
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-Robert Frost-

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"The real test of character is whether you will do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay."
-Michael Josephson-

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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-John Wooden-

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerso-

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"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Edison-

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"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
-Helen Keller-

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"One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves."
-L. Tom Perry-

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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
-Elie Wiesel-

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"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
-Carl Jung-

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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
-Martin Luther King, jr.-

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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
-Jessamyn West-

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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
-Unknown-

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me
-Robert Frost-

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-






My poems were always a reflection of what goes on in my mind. And I'm afraid it ain't all that pretty...
But I can think I can say that I've written some true masterpieces, and I trully hope you enjoy reading them. They mean a lot to me, so I hope you'll feel the power of emotions these poems bring with them.

Grtz Phaethon