Tyler Kent White

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.