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
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