Tyler Kent White

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.

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.

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.

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.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

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.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.