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#463001voted by our readers
By GraceK SILVER
TENAFLY, New Jersey

Internal War To be a leader, to want, to desire, to love, to live, to long, to wonder, to marvel, to inspire. Whether it is futile or not, it is justified, for it is nature. I lon...
GraceK SILVER, TENAFLY, New Jersey
9 articles 0 photos 9 comments

#463002 Poetry
eforman GOLD, Potomac, Maryland
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”
Rainer Maria Rilke quote

BrittaneyPeacock DIAMOND, Houston, Texas
94 articles 46 photos 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be yourself and never change for no one, If they can't except you for you then don't have them".
"Go after your dreams, do whatever it takes to get there and never let go". "Live life to the fullest cause there is never tomorrow".

#463004 Poetry
By birdiechiodo BRONZE
Clarkston, Michigan
birdiechiodo BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#463005 Poetry
By Blindbats96 BRONZE
Hemet, California
Blindbats96 BRONZE, Hemet, California
3 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Do not let what you can not do effect with what you can do

#463006 Poetry
Sarah Chauvin BRONZE, Fenton, Missouri
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#463007 Poetry
By Alyssa Ertel BRONZE
Kennewick, Washington
Alyssa Ertel BRONZE, Kennewick, Washington
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#463008 Poetry
By blue-midnight SILVER
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
blue-midnight SILVER, Hoffman Estates, Illinois
5 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"beauty is not blond,
love is not first sight,
family is not for gain,
respect is not a right,
knowledge is not key,
magic is not pretend,
peace is not paper,
goodbye is not the end"

#463009 Poetry
By cornbread SILVER
Essex, Vermont
cornbread SILVER, Essex, Vermont
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"we know, but we don't want to know,
so we pretend we don't know, because knowing

is very inconvenient
because then we have to change"

#463010 Poetry
By Larii BRONZE
Lake Stevens, Washington
Larii BRONZE, Lake Stevens, Washington
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Reality sounds like a nice place, but I wouldn't want to live there." ~Unknown