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learning to fly
By Love2Read72 PLATINUM
Kentfield, California

wanting to fly away stop hearing voices stop being controlled wanting freedom stop searching for it stop yearning for what isn’t there wanting life stop staying put sto...
Love2Read72 PLATINUM, Kentfield, California
24 articles 0 photos 105 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Taylor Swift

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Broken Glass
By DeathOfAStar GOLD
Kailua, Hawaii
DeathOfAStar GOLD, Kailua, Hawaii
11 articles 1 photo 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot; Emancipate yourself from mental slavery&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> - Bob Marley

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My Life
By Lostfriend SILVER
Boone, Iowa
Lostfriend SILVER, Boone, Iowa
5 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
Why are you choosing to be angry?

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For what I fear
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Look again at that dot. That&#039;s here. That&#039;s home. That&#039;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every &quot;superstar,&quot; every &quot;supreme leader,&quot; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br /> <br /> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.<br /> <br /> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br /> <br /> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br /> <br /> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#039;ve ever known.&rdquo; <br /> ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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Only Temporary
By dinks PLATINUM
Hinsdale, Illinois
dinks PLATINUM, Hinsdale, Illinois
28 articles 0 photos 80 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;and kisses are a better faith than freedom&quot;

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Jupiter & Lemonade MAG
By Blynn SILVER
Waco, Texas
Blynn SILVER, Waco, Texas
9 articles 0 photos 97 comments
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So Much More Than Just a Morning
By Alyssa95 PLATINUM
Lodi, Wisconsin
Alyssa95 PLATINUM, Lodi, Wisconsin
40 articles 21 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.&quot; - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace Is Not for Everyone
By 12gage PLATINUM
Genesee,
12gage PLATINUM, Genesee,
30 articles 0 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;GODS OF WAR I CALL YOU, MY SWORD <br /> IS BY MY SIDE. <br /> I SEEK A LIFE OF HONR, FREE FROM <br /> ALL FALSE PRIDE. <br /> I WILL CRACK THE WHIP WITH A BOLD <br /> MIGHTY HAIL. <br /> COVER ME WITH DEATH IF I SHOULD <br /> EVER FAIL. <br /> &quot;GLORY, MAJESTY, UNITY <br /> HAIL, HAIL, HAIL. &quot;

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"Restless Soul"
By Anonymous
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Slipping Through Our Fingers
By White-Rabbit SILVER
Thief River Falls, Minnesota
White-Rabbit SILVER, Thief River Falls, Minnesota
7 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I can&#039;t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.&quot; Lewis Carroll

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