Anthony Liccione Quotes

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

Simplicity is, as simple as you make it.

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.

At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds.

Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

The best way to handle life, is to put your life in God's hands.

It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.

It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.

A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.

You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.

As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!

One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares.

It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.

People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

Don't look at the present storm, but look to the Son coming.

Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying "is He real?

No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.

With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.