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The Home Of Love
Ever since You were the home of love for me, my love has lived where You have lived. Because of You, I have delighted in the wrath of my enemies; let them be, let them torment the one whom You tormented. It was from You that they learned their wrath, and I love them, for they hound the wounded one whom You struck down. Ever since You despised me, I have despised myself, for I will not honour what You despise. So be it, until Your anger has passed, and again You will redeem
Your own possession, which You once redeemed.**
**From the bondage of Egypt.
Translated by T. Carmi
poem by Yehudah HaLevi
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Do You Know Why You Are Unhappy?
you have always been unhappy
feeling unwanted, despised and hurt
yes, your ego is hurt
you believe that this ego is hurt
that this ego exists
try believing there is none
believe that there is no such word as
ego
try believing there is no you at all
let us see who gets the feeling of being unwanted
despised or hurt
there is none now
you see? 99% percent of what you do is for yourself
yourself
your ego and you are so unhappy, because in truth
there is no you
there is no ego
and all you did was for no one else
that is what emptiness is all about
precisely, that is what unhappiness is.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Real Men
The real men today are not recognized,
For who they are.
In fact,
Those who are real men today...
Are despised for who they are.
And barred from getting their just 'do'...
And attention.
A working man who does what he can,
And without complaint as he does this...
To provide for his family.
Is rare!
And hardly seen.
A devoted husband and family man,
Is not given credit at all...
For standing tall.
As other 'men' shy away from being accountable.
While away busying themselves...
Leisurely making excuses,
To play all kinds of self obsessed, seducing 'ball'.
You name it!
There will be something entertaining,
And selfish attached to it!
And 'these' are the 'real' men...
Cheating women bar hop,
To pick and lay up with.
As they both trade their self respect,
For two minutes of unsatisfying...
Discreeted, deceiving, disease spreading sex!
The real men today are not recognized,
For who they are.
In fact,
Those who are real men today...
Are despised for who they are.
And barred from getting their just 'do'...
And attention.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others.
Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised.
Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.
When you are rich, you are resented; when you are poor, you are despised.
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
quote by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
quote by Edmund Burke
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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
quote by Max Nordau
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Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
quote by Paul Muldoon
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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
quote by Jeffrey Bernard
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
quote by Christian Nestell Bovee
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
quote by Edward Gibbon
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Important Elf
The speech importantly despised itself,
My order was to exchange my life with an elf.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
quote by Jesse Louis Jackson
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