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#5421voted by our readers
By heather444 SILVER
Shrewsbury, New Jersey

The grass is always greener on the other side The paved road is always smoother as we are on the ride. The time we wish for freedom is when our ankles and wrists are chained...
heather444 SILVER, Shrewsbury, New Jersey
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

#5422 Poetry
Ducklings MAG
By hyacinth-girl GOLD
Marlborough, Massachusetts
hyacinth-girl GOLD, Marlborough, Massachusetts
15 articles 13 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
‘My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!’
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

#5423 Poetry
Luckystar78 ELITE, London, Other
114 articles 0 photos 97 comments

Favorite Quote:
"..though warm as summer it was fresh as spring." (Thomas Hardy) ("Far from the Madding crowd")

Ezzallenne PLATINUM, Austell, Georgia
32 articles 3 photos 30 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Fall down seven times; stand up eight."

#5425 Poetry
By EllasRedJacket SILVER
Washington, District Of Columbia
EllasRedJacket SILVER, Washington, District Of Columbia
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#5426 Poetry
By daRklovelyblue17 GOLD
Phoenix, Arizona
daRklovelyblue17 GOLD, Phoenix, Arizona
13 articles 2 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Where words fail, music speaks."

"I'm trying to believe in things that I don't know[...]That love can kill the pain, that truth is never vain, it turns strangers into lovers, and enemies to brothers"

#5427 Poetry
By Anonymous
#5428 Poetry
By ZCmusiclover SILVER
Ashland, Pennsylvania
ZCmusiclover SILVER, Ashland, Pennsylvania
6 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry- Mark Twain

#5429 Poetry
By custosimago DIAMOND
Kensington, Maryland
custosimago DIAMOND, Kensington, Maryland
72 articles 0 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
Hell is going through Life without knowing Love

#5430 Poetry
By SSSplatters PLATINUM
Plainview, Minnesota
SSSplatters PLATINUM, Plainview, Minnesota
25 articles 0 photos 38 comments

Favorite Quote:
"What does not kill you makes you stronger!" or
"Your only limits are the ones you set on yourself" Love doesn't bring happiness, happiness can just happens to be found easier where there is love-- Sam