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“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”
“Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”
“She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.”
“Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light.”
“Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.”
“Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?”
“I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.”
“I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?”
“Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.”
“For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as ...”
“Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.”
“I think, therefore I am?No, I simply am.I am. I am. I am.I will still be if I didn't think. In fact, it is only then that I would step into a different dimension of consciousness.Yes, I will still ...”
“Last night, I spoke to God.I told Him my plans. He started to cry.I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.He said that He was crying only becausemy plans were very differentthan His pla...”
“To be wise means to know when to stay silent.”
“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
“Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.”
“I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone, I will be a fraction but the common denominator has always been me.”
“Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.”
“You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.”
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”
