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#5401voted by our readers
By waywithwords GOLD
Forest Hill, Maryland

The crowd is whooping and hollering, Two minutes, and then it's the end. Should I run up and play offense? Or should I stay back and defend? I decided to go for the gold...
waywithwords GOLD, Forest Hill, Maryland
16 articles 0 photos 32 comments

Favorite Quote:
~~Isn't it funny how the most important things in life aren't things?~~


#5402 Poetry
By AddiLou BRONZE
None Of Your Business, Washington
AddiLou BRONZE, None Of Your Business, Washington
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

#5403 Poetry
By 3mo_sw33ts SILVER
Gonzales, Louisiana
3mo_sw33ts SILVER, Gonzales, Louisiana
9 articles 0 photos 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing at all."

#5404 Poetry
bookmaniac PLATINUM, Issaquah, Washington
41 articles 18 photos 9 comments
#5405 Poetry
By Anonymous
#5406 Poetry
By chrisoulakat PLATINUM
Tinley Park, Illinois
chrisoulakat PLATINUM, Tinley Park, Illinois
48 articles 10 photos 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Stop waiting and be free. Of me- put me deep inside you and then go out in the world and live. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element." -The Time Traveler's Wife

#5407 Poetry
By Gabbyyirene GOLD
Winter Garden, Florida
Gabbyyirene GOLD, Winter Garden, Florida
18 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
You have every right to a beautiful life- Selena Gomez

#5408 Poetry
By thumpR8221 GOLD
Moriarty, New Mexico
thumpR8221 GOLD, Moriarty, New Mexico
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

#5409 Poetry
Babybearcub PLATINUM, West Linn, Oregon
24 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line" -Oscar Levant

"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give." -Winston Churchill

#5410 Poetry
HafsaAhmed PLATINUM, Karachi, Other
22 articles 2 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
I don't believe in angry arguments , I believe in silent revenge.

Revenge doesn't merely means hurting others, it sometimes mean being a better person than you were yesterday.