Matthew Peters > Matthew's Quotes

“This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.”
― Natalie Goldberg

“Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.”
― Joseph Eastwood

“But we didn’t, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn’t see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love—because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?—we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn’t, we didn’t, we never did.”
― Stuart Dybek

“God existed before every religion; He exists in spite of all religions.”
― Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“Wandering"

What’s the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
The loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Annette Dabrowska, Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Mental Health and Healing Poetry Book