The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.
~ Roman Payne
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
~ Germany Kent
Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
~ Germany Kent
Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud,but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hoursjust wanting to make it through the day.There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got throughand the sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely waysbut you can not let it.I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness,thinking it will help but it only feeds the fireand I don't want to hurt myself anymore.I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me—little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. It will always be spring again.And there will always be a new day.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.
~ Germany Kent
When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.
~ Roman Payne
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.
~ Roman Payne
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
~ Roman Payne
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
~ Compton Gage
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
~ Compton Gage
Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.
~ Compton Gage
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
~ Compton Gage
What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?
~ Compton Gage
Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
~ Compton Gage
Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
~ Compton Gage
As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.
~ Compton Gage
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
~ Compton Gage
The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
~ Compton Gage
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
~ Compton Gage
Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:
~ Compton Gage
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
~ Compton Gage
The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
~ Compton Gage
There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:
~ Compton Gage
Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-
~ Compton Gage
One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.
~ Compton Gage
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
~ Compton Gage
