Tyler Kent White

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.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

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.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

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

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

You have to name it to claim it.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.