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#1

“the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die”
― Saul Williams

tags: america, americans, insightful

116 likes

#2

“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

390 likes

#3

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

tags: americans, immigrants

52 likes

#4

“The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: americans

21 likes

#5

“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: angel-poems, classic-books, classic-quotes, creative-vision, famous-quotes, gold, grace, haiku, haikus, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring-authors, inspiring-words, joy, love, national-poetry-month, personal-growth, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, positive-motivation, psychotherapy, rainbow, rainbows, self-esteem, self-love, self-motivation, self-respect, spirituality

1106 likes

#6

“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

tags: intimacy, life-lessons, love, peace, peacekeeping, philosophy, poetry, relationships, spirituality, trust, war

532 likes

#7

“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: famous-poets, famous-quotes, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, love, relationships, romance, spirituality, unconditional-love, unity, valentine-s-day

123 likes

#8

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: art, artists, beauty, creativity, national-poetry-month, poem-in-your-pocket-day, spirituality, writers

117 likes

#9

“Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

tags: broken-heart, determination, faith, grace, healing, human-nature, inspiration, perseverance, power, recovery, rejuvenation, restoration, resurrection, songs-from-the-black-skylark, spiritual-empowerment, spirituality, survival-instinct, world-suicide-prevention-day, zped-music-player

115 likes

#10

“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: angel-poems, angels, beauty, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, grace, haiku, haikus, healing, inspirational-quotes, national-poetry-month, poems-by-aberjhani, poetry, spirituality, wings, world-poetry-day

108 likes

#11

“In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: blood, despair, grief, national-poetry-month, pain, peace-movement, poetry, violence, war-in-the-21st-century, warfare

76 likes

#12

“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

tags: celebrating-life, crying, hopefulness, inspiration, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, joy, overcoming-adversity, perseverance, positive-attitude, positive-motivation, smiles, smilesfilm, smiling, sorrow

15 likes

#13

“Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: art, beauty, famous-poets, life, literary-inspiration, national-poetry-month, philosophy, poetry, savannah-author-aberjhani, spiritual-nourishment, spirituality, truth, wisdom

13 likes

#14

“In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

tags: grief, love, poetry, psychology, relationships, solititude, spirituality

10 likes

#15

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
― Johnny Cash

437 likes

#16

“There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.”
― Johnny Cash

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#17

“There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her.”
― Johnny Cash

208 likes

#18

“You're nothing like your sister," he tells me. "She meant a lot to me, okay? It's true. But the things I like about you have nothing to do with her. You - you are so strong and stubborn it drives me crazy. You're the one going through all this and you still put Laney first every time, instead of throwing yourself the pity party we both know you deserve. You call me out on my shit, and I like that, because sometimes I need someone to call me out on my shit. And you get Johnny Cash, and you take these incredible photos, and everything about you makes me hurt, in a good way, and it blows my mind that someone can be so amazing and not even see it.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

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#19

“Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.”
― Johnny Cash

tags: affair, love

48 likes

#20

“You will always be my June, Tru."
"And you're my Johnny Cash, Jake.”
― Samantha Towle, Wethering the Storm

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#21

“Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.”
― Henry Rollins

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#22

“This morning, with her, having coffee”
― Johnny Cash

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#23

“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,
a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose
in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;
chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,
ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.
We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginia
knocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.
No one asked why he was so solemn today.
It was warm. It was relatively quiet.
To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.
But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.
No one was ever here long enough to know us.
And we liked it that way.”
― Taylor Rhodes, Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses

tags: adult-nonfiction, diary, freedom, journal, love, lust, memoir, nonfiction, running-away, self-discovery, self-exploration, sixteenth-notes, taylor-rhodes, young-adult, youth-nonfiction

4 likes

#24

“Cash said he was someone “made up of bad parts but was trying to do good.”
― Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life

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#25

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: poetry

3878 likes

#26

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude

2710 likes

#27

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: cute, euphoria, nostalgic

2430 likes

#28

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
― Walt Whitman

299 likes

#29

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: dismiss, inspirational, soul, spirituality, wisdom

657 likes