No one could say the stories were useless for as the tongue clacked five or forty fingers stitched corn was grated from the husk pathwork was pieced or the darning was done... (from 'The Storyteller Poems')
When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can’t even dream of her...
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?
...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.
Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations.
Your little kettle will rattle in the battle; just put it on fire. Spark your ambitions with action and thing will change. Be like a warrior!
Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.
Your attitudes, action, reactions and expectations are harboured in the power of your thoughts. Think positively and you will smile at the harvest time.
The difference between where you are now and where you will get to later defines your range of work which you have to be responsible for.
Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities.
Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly; repent and move on.
You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!
When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.
Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.
Create an opportunity for change to have way in your attitude and lifestyle. Sometimes, it not us, but our perceptions scare away change!
Your decisions in hours of failure would determine whether you will forever be where you are or you will move out of that situation.
Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.
Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!
