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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

Nothing Gold Can Stay
--Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me. But it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry, you will someday.
From American Beauty

And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share. And no one dared disturb the sound of silence. "Fools", saidl I, "You do not know, Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my words that I might reach you." But my words, like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence. and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and the tenement halls." And whispered the sounds of silence.
From the Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
From Redemption Song by Bob Marley

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling