Tyler Kent White

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.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.

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.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Failure is no accident.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.