Tyler Kent White

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

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.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

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.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

The people change, the common denominator is you.

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.