Quotes of: Versed Keyword

Live today facing forward—with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I love the magic of a hot bath; how time pauses and every grievance melts away.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Love tickles parts of you that, prior to its influence, you didn't even know could feel.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it ...

James Fenton

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

We are creatures of rage and madness and bitter tears and we knew that from the start. Our end was disaster and we knew that from the start. We knew it all from the start.

1000 Quotable Poems; An Anthology Of Modern Verse

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse?

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix; it's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year