Marc P. Robinson

There are those that are void of all mercy, but when it comes the time that they are on their knees, they plead for it. Those that were born with the art of deception, never sincere with their words or actions. But mercy is not theirs to take, only for you to give. Never compromise your standards, your beliefs and become like the ones who you are fighting against, but stay resolute to who you are.

It’s the ones that stayed after the Exodus, that I knew were real and could handle the truth; that would stay with me on my journey, for better or worse.

I look up at the universe and ask, ‘What are you trying to teach me here?’ I know I won’t hear a reply, but asking the question, makes me begin looking for the answer.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

Broken, like a mosaic, I am pieced together. I am still a piece of art, though I may not be fully appreciated by all, the ones that see the beauty, are the ones who have the understanding; gained through experience, that to break, doesn’t mean to give up.

It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Travel is a fools paradise.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.