“I love you in a language that I don’t fully understand…in words that I haven’t found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.”
– Rudy Francisco
Tag: quotes
You Don’t Wanna Know
“…the instrument behind all this poetry…..yea…U don’t really wanna know bout the degradation it took to straighten my pen into this position…what it took to have the courage to wear my feelings on my sleeves….and to bleed words for a living.”
Strive
“I can hardly walk in heels, but mama taught us to reach for the sky tho they said we couldn’t afford it.”
Reflections
“The only thing rebellion hates more than truth is a mirror.”
The Day You Give Up
“The day you give up the fight is the day you have lost the battle.”
Disappointments
Like Decembers steal color from the trees…like the sky when it erases the sun and we are left to do without the light…like life …wrapped and stuffed into bottles of deception…like whitewashed hopes and American nightmares…
Struggle
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
What I love most about this quote is that struggle is such a powerful teacher. It passes down the knowledge of self, which without such cannot be obtained. If not for the hardships many of us have been through we would not have understood who we were as individuals. It is a healing experience to transform the mind by having endured struggle, pain, obstacles. No discipline seems pleasant at the time we receive it, but what in creation produces a greater reward than enduring struggle? Show me a better teacher than pain.
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