Friendship
-has no race, no religion, no politics, and no gender. Its language is spoken from the heart, and knows no boundaries.
-is a fragile bond that strengthens all it holds.
-is blind to differences and accepting of the individual.

Enemies
-are often friends who have gotten the wrong idea.

Relationships
-are like a road, if you don’t fix the potholes the ride gets rougher with each new one.

Individualism
-is the artwork you create of yourself.

Prejudice
-is a blindfold best removed if you wish to truly see.

Ignorance
-is a hunger best fed with knowledge.

Love
-can be the most pleasing of pleasures, or the most agonizing of torments.

Meditation
-can show you the peace within that helps you deal with the chaos surrounding you at times.

Naps
Children think naps are a punishment, while old people think they're a reward.

Old Age
-was once believed to bring wisdom, but now more often then not it is believed to bring foolishness.

Respect
-is some thing you must learn to give to yourself before you can truly give it to others.

Strength
-is often hidden in the mind long before you can view it in the body.

Lies
-The eyes and ears can tell a person more lies or truths then the lips could ever figure out how to speak.

Death
-is nothing more then a doorway awaiting your passage through it to the other side.
-is the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another in the novel of life.
-is the guide holding your hand when it’s time to move onward and beyond.
-is the unexpected knock on your door which makes you wonder what you forgot to do.

Curiosity
-is the temptress of learning, and the bane of caution.

Poetry
-is often a revealing of oneself to the world around them.

Life
-is a never ending lesson.
-is like walking through the woods on a dark night. You never know what you might get bitten by or stuck with next.
-can be cruel, but only people can be sadistic.

Peace
-is what you receive when you learn to accept.
-A man of peace holds more courage then one hundred men of war.
-is one of the greatest accomplishments we can achieve in life.

Trials
-strengthen the strong, but often break the weak.

Nature
-is the mother who gives us gifts we often do not appreciate, and the father who disciplines us for our foolish disrespect.

Organized Religion
-is often the death of freedom.

Birth
-is another new beginning following yet another ending.
-is where we begin to wonder-WHY ME?

Fear
-destroys reason and promotes insanity.

Perception
-is as ever-changing as those viewing it.

Laughter
-is what you hear when you tell a really bad joke to a really good friend.

Reason
-promotes logic and stability just as insanity promotes chaos and weakness.

Bullets
-may have no name on them, but a name often exists in the mind that sent them.

Control
-is an illusion often destroyed by the unexpected.

Motherhood
-can bring out the best in a woman while irritating and confusing her children and her mate to no end.
-is the greatest job a woman can ever be gifted with in her life.

Politics
-are the thoughts of people who aim for one thing, and often discover they have somehow missed their mark.
-have more thorns then a briar patch ever could.
-are like running a gauntlet of shifty sales agents with a blindfold on and your ankles tied together.

Children
-are the future we hope to guide into some thing worthwhile for all.
-are a parent’s greatest joys, and at times their most heartfelt sorrows.
-give us the greatest gift of all. Parenthood.

Creation
-is every thing destruction fears. Reality
-is what your senses often hide from your mind.
-are a living gift of laughter and tears.

Irony
-is a blind man who sees far better then a sighted man.
-is love that kills.

Music
-is a voice that needs no words to be heard.
-is a universal language.

Smiles
-are a small part of your own inner happiness you can easily show and share with the world at no cost to anyone.

Money
-gives more power to misery then it ever has to happiness.

Insanity
-is the loss of reason, the death of logic, and the creator of chaos.

Energy
-is what we have been, truly are, and always will be.
-is every thing and everyone, and thus so are we.
-never dies, and thus neither do we.

Men
-are the guardians of a woman’s finest gifts, life and love.
-are the strength many women lean upon when all else has failed to hold them.
-real ones have the courage to be wrong in the eyes of another, and strive to make it right.
-are what boys become when they realize they were not meant to rule others, but work with them side by side.

Women
-guide a man to his own inner strengths, while revealing their own for all the world.
-are often the unrealized warriors of life.
-can be the gentler side of a man’s resolve.
-are what girls become when they figure out they were not meant to be queens to be bowed to, but friends meant to stand hand in hand beside others.

Romance
-is what you get when both parties finally realize it really is worth the time and effort.

Caffeine
-makes a workaholic think they have get-up-and-go when it's got-up-and-went without them.

Warriors
-are more of the mind then the body could ever possibly know.

Health
-Those who do not appreciate the gift will often find it is lost long before it would have worn itself out.

Tact
-is the tool by which one may speak softly and be heard, instead of shouting and being ignored.

Violence
-is what you receive when your opponent has nothing intelligent left to say.

Tears
-are the silent voices of the heart, some times happy, some times sad.

Gossip
-If gossip did not exist those lacking a life would have nothing to say to one another.

Belief
-To dissuade a belief one must first forget the thought that began it.

Arrogance
-is the glass shield of the over confident, easily seen through, and just as easily shattered.
-Those who suffer from it are the first to admit they are right, and the last to know they are wrong.
-Those who place themselves too high above others often land on their head, and end up looking up instead of down.
-Never walk with your nose too far up in the air, a bird might fly up it when you’re not looking.

Philosophy
-is a tool by which one tries to find strength of self while avoiding the weaknesses of the world.

Wisdom
-is the guiding force behind those who would improve every thing for everyone.
-is often sought, even as it is often over-looked.
-is often the silence drowning out the ravings of idiots.
-is the humility that can unhorse the pompous.

Knowledge
-is a power many seek, but few truly find, or understand.
-is a power growing with each time it is shared.

Beauty
-is to view all with an open mind and an open heart.
-is a living thing. It’s no wonder critics are always trying to kill it.

Dreams
-are all you wish you were, and all you fear to become.

Fate
-is what you believe in when you’re fed up with every thing else.

Gambling
-Nothing ventured is nothing gained, but nothing wagered is nothing lost.

Hatred
-is a true means to self-destruction.

Deceit
-is the destroyer of all trust.
-is what one uses when there is no strength in their truth.

War
-is the result of a lack of effort.
-is often born from thoughtlessness and miscommunication.
-destroys many lives, and many more hopes and dreams.
-is one of the greatest failures of life.

Conflict
-is born of confusion and fear.

Dogs
-Are said to be man’s best friend, then why do they chew up his newspaper and urinate on his tires?

Darkness
-is the mother of every thing, even itself.

Morality
-is what some hide behind when they frighten even themselves.

Thoughts
-can build the mind, or destroy it.
-are like people, ever growing and changing.

Cats
-are an example of how graceful a predator can be.

Clothing
-often hides the real person beneath it.

Freedom
-is the will to know what one wishes to be, and the courage to pursue it.
-is some thing a person makes for themselves no one can truly take away.

Self
-is what you ‘know’ you are when everyone else ‘thinks’ you are some thing else.
-is what one finds when they stop searching for their answers within others, and discover the courage to look into their own eyes without flinching.
-The one who cares what you think when other don’t care enough to think.

Flowers
-are living proof of nature’s delicate beauty.

Happiness
-is what too many seek, that far too few truly find.

Birds
-are gifted with natural flight. Something most creatures can only dream of, and most people truly envy.

Friends
-are the treasure you should never have to count, but instead should be able to be counted on.
-are the ones who are there, even when you think you don’t need them.
-share themselves with you as they accept all you are willing to share with them in return.
-are the ones who hear and understand you, even when you’ve said nothing.

Words
-are what one says in the hope that others will understand them.
-can cut deeper and truer then any blade.
-are the thoughts of the mind often mangled by the lips.

Contentment
-is a state of being most cannot get a road map or a bus ticket for.

Questions
-are what a wise man uses to become wiser.

Sorrow
-can forge a strong heart from a weaker one.

Suicide
-is the ultimate waste.
-is how one cheats themselves more then any thing or anyone ever could.

Courage
-is what you discover when fear finally runs away.
-is found in the least likely of places at times.

Cruelty
-is a small minds response to those who never meant them any harm.

Reading
-opens new worlds for the mind to explore.

Writers
-bring to you in their words what the world may deny you in experiences.

Art
-is some thing to be created, not manufactured.
-should be appreciated, not inspected.

Cowards
-run from the truth while hiding behind lies.

Patience
-is a virtue most have not the time to exhibit.
-is what you wish you had more of when the rat race keeps running over your determination.

Frustration
-is what happens when you forget to step back and take some time for yourself.
-is a symptom of one who gives too much to the world, and not enough to themself.
-is some thing everyone faces, that no one asks to be afflicted with.

Existence
-is forever.

Promises
-made to oneself are often broken for the sake of promises made to another.

Victory
-truly belongs to those who simply enjoy the contest for its own sake, and nothing more.

Relief
-is what you feel when life starts picking on someone else for a change.
-is what you feel when you realize you’re not as bad off as you thought you were.

Satisfaction
-is what you feel when you’re ninety and realize you’re still kicking-at all.

Infatuation
-is what you feel when someone smiles and coyly winks at you before you realize they lifted you’re wallet when you weren’t looking.

Taxes
-seem to mimic life, neverending.

Solitude
-is a haven where you can brush the dust of the world off of you for a time.
-is the place that tells you whether or not you are fit to be around others. If you find you can’t stand yourself, then you shouldn’t inflict others with you either.

Perceptions
-are what the senses give the mind that it constantly struggles to understand.
-can be a realm of enlightenment, or a kingdom of pure confusion.

Ladies
-are what men want, until they finally figure out they’re men, then they want a woman.

Gentlemen
-are what women want when their sex drive has broken down and been hauled off to the junk yard.

Crazy
-is what a genius often calls the last person who outsmarted them.

Childhood
-is where you wish you could return to when adult life beats you down.

Foolishness
-is believing you know it all when you haven’t even picked up the damn book.

Tolerance
-opens a person that ignorance may be driven out.

Hind-sight
-may be 20/20, but first you have to have the courage to turn around and look behind you.

Best Friend
-A person’s best friend is themselves, but they can also be their own worst enemy.

Waste
-is what you get when all other options have not been completely or properly examined.

Babies
-can discover more in a single day then most people will take notice of in an entire lifetime.

Slavery
-is something a weak person may try to inflict on a strong one when they fear them for no good reason.
-should be like many things of this world, extinct.

Tyranny
-is what falls when people stand together for the right reasons.

Listening
-Those who do not listen, seldom learn.

Discovery
-is what happens when you close your mouth, and open your eyes, ears, and mind to what is around you.

Experience
-can be one of life’s most pleasant teachers, or one of its harshest taskmasters.

Ugliness
-is the ignorance and cruelty you show toward others.

Disguises
-are what a person wears when they fear that others might really see them, and be as disappointed as they are themself.

Family
-are the ones who accept you when you fail to accept yourself.
-are the ones who hold your heart in safe keeping when you think you don’t possess either.
-are the ones you some times wish you could trade in, then realize you’re happy you can’t.
-are the ones who believe in you, even when you don’t believe in yourself.
-are the ones who know your mind, and still love you anyway.

Power
-has no personality, or morality other then what is given it by those who wield it.
-The power of the pen is only as great as the thoughts that guide it across the page.
-is neither good, nor evil in its nature.

Responsibility
Accepting one's responsibilities earns a person honor, shirking them earns them shame.