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By IfLifeGivesYouLemons PLATINUM
Sacramento, California

One crisp, clear note floating gently through the room A single, long second like an atom, like the moon A shaft of light spoke volumes, my eyes couldn’t keep it still When...
IfLifeGivesYouLemons PLATINUM, Sacramento, California
37 articles 0 photos 22 comments

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life


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By Snowy PLATINUM
Cambridge, Vermont
Snowy PLATINUM, Cambridge, Vermont
22 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Excuse me??

#255406 Poetry
By Michelle Fiedler SILVER
St. Paul, Minnesota
Michelle Fiedler SILVER, St. Paul, Minnesota
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#255407 Poetry
Naomi518 GOLD, Windsor, Connecticut
11 articles 15 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light" ~Albus Dumbledore

#255408 Poetry
By Lexi_S PLATINUM
Syracuse, Virginia
Lexi_S PLATINUM, Syracuse, Virginia
46 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"When life gives you lemons chuck them back at life and demand apples."

#255409 Poetry
costello22 SILVER, Salem, Oregon
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. T. E. Lawrence

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By Anonymous