January 2010
31 posts
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper...
– Robert Frost (1874-1963)
December 2009
32 posts
3 tags
Knock,
and Love will open the door.
Vanish,
and Love will make you shine...
– Rumi
3 tags
Stand in ovation,
Cause you put the Hue in Human
Cause and effect,
effect...
– Talib Kweli, “K.O.S Determination”
1 tag
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with aim, just gotta change the target
– Jay-Z, “American Dream”
We live on because we can love
We love because we can forgive
– Gregory David Robertson, “Shantaram: A Novel”
Your grind and my grind ‘aint the same dawg
I’m the catalogue,...
– Mos Def “Close Edge”
1 tag
Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week
– JayZ
Whatever road we take to You, JOY.
However one is received, HONOR.
With...
– Abu-Said Ibn Abil-Kheir (967 - 1049)
Watching the moon
at midnight,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely,...
– Izumi Shikibu (974?-1034?)
Your grind and my grind ‘aint the same dawg
I’m the catalogue,...
– Mos Def, “Sunshine”
It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine
– Common “There is a light’
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose...
– Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....
– Steve Jobs
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead...
– D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Pack lightly,
and leave yourself behind.
– Ivan M. Granger
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to...
– François de La Rochefoucauld (1613- 1680)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always...
– Mark Twain
For my part I know nothing with any certainty
But the sight of the stars makes...
– Vincent van Gogh (1852-1890)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank...
– William Ernest Henley, “Invictus”
Waiting for the rain to stop.
Destination: Beautiful.
– Mae, “Sun”
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For...
– Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”
‘Cause there’s Beauty in the Breakdown
– Frou Frou, “Let go”
I strike like lightning and don’t need thunder,
Inhale imagination and...
– Common “Invocation”
She’s a fine piece of mind…with da right mindset
– Damian Marley, “Hey Girl”
Apply yourself, hand and foot„
to the search;
But when you reach the...
– Hakim Sanai, Sufi Poet (unk - 1131)
I’m freestyling,
for me, myself and I
I write them on the paper til it...
– Talib Kweli, “Oh My Stars”
We stand outside ourselves
Define ourselves.
By standing outside ourselves
– Pinback, “Manchuria”
Dark is the night,
cold is the ground,
In the circular solitude of my heart,...
– Phoenix, “Feel Better”
“Tell me, if the One you seek is placeless, why put your shoes on?
The...
– Hakim Sanai, Sufi Poet (unk - 1131)
I stand tall in the winter summer spring or fall,
‘Thug for Life’...
– 2pac, “Fuck All Ya’ll”
شور منم
نور منم
عاشق رنجور منم
“I’m the aching lover, blazing...
– Rumi
Weep like the water wheel, that the green herbs may spring up from the courtyard...
– Rumi