Quotes by Harley King

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Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.

Harley King

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

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Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent like a hammer beating the water.

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Sometimes we live too much in the past, remembering what we wished had happened.

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Memory shimmers as a crystal lake that reflects all things invisible.

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If I woke up one morning and realized that all I ever was going to be was a business man, I'd probably die. All my dreams would be shattered. Early in life I had many dreams. I dreamed of being a great basketball star. I dreamed of being a preacher. ...

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Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

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Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

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Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

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We fear what we most desire.

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How little we understand of the gifts we have been given or the shape of the path we took to reach our salvation.

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Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.

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All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.

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One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

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Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

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I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.

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May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

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Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

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May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

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The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.

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