Always Come Back

~Josh Smith~

Challenge

“Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

December

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. 

You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, 

and that sight becomes this art.” 

― Jalaluddin Rumi

Thoughts

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Poems from the Heart

“I may not always be with you 

But when we're far apart

Remember you will be with me

Right inside my heart” 

-Marc Wambolt

Love

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” 








― Zelda Fitzgerald 

The Alchemist

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.” 

― Paulo Coelho

Still I Rise

                                                   

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

-Maya Angelou

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Van Gogh

If you truly love nature,

you will find beauty

everywhere.

Beautiful Day

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” 

~Sigmund Freud

Girl with mandolin

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” 

 ~David Carradine

June Quote

A little more persistence,

a little more effort,

and what seemed hopeless failure

may turn to glorious success

- Elbert Hubbard

Starry Night

“Fly without wings; 

Dream with open eyes; 

See in darkness.” 

 Dejan Stojanovic

Hardy

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” 

 Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Quote

"Sometimes your joy 

is the source of your smile, but 

sometimes your smile can be 

the source of your joy"

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Proverb

"Those who wish to sing always find a song"

May Haiku

Falling to the ground,

I watch a leaf settle down

In a bed of brown.

Daily Living

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bell Jar

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; 

I lift my eyes and all is born again.” 

Sylvia Plath

The Collected Poem

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,

Robin in the fall,

But Colin only looked at me

And never kissed at all.

Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,

Robin’s lost in play,

But the kiss in Colin’s eyes

Haunts me night and day.” 

~Sara Teasdale

Freud

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” 

Sigmund Freud

M. Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Silent Night

“I love the silent hour of night,

For blissful dreams may then arise,

Revealing to my charmed sight

What may not bless my waking eyes.” 

― Anne Brontë

Silence....

Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing 

and rightdoing there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass

the world is too full to talk about.” 

Noli Me Tangere

Mary Magdalene & Christ
~Fra Angelico

The Fall...

“You know what charm is:

A way of getting the answer yes

without having asked

any clear question.”

~Albert Camus

The Power

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” 

 -René Descartes

Blake

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” 

― William Blake

A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow! 

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream; 

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone? 

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream...

-Edgar Allan Poe

Lao Tzu

We join spokes together in a wheel, 

but it is the center hole 

that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot, 

but it is the emptiness inside

that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house, 

but it is the inner space

that makes it livable.

We work with being, 

but non-being is what we use.