Anthony Liccione quotes:

Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.

Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

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.

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

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

We shall become, or we shall overcome.

We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.

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

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths.

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

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.

Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.

We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.

The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better.

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

If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot?

Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.

When a blind man says, 'God is good,' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.

Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.

The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.

When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze.

The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.

She says: love is really all that matters. He hears: really love to do it on the mattress.

They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.

Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it.

One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye.

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.

Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.

Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.

I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.

What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you.

What is salvation without faith? is likea Christmas tree without a star, is likea kingdom without a king, is likea heart without a beat, is likea light switch that just won't turn on.

It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep.

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.

I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.

Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!

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

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

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.

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.

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine."

Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit."

It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil."

Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life, while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny."

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

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity.

I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.

It takes time, or does time take it?

The future is now! Don't make that second pass you into regrets.

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.

Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.

As troubles bring money, money in turn can also bring troubles.

Live a life of lies; die a death of truths.

It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

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

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

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

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.

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.

Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.

Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.

If you're still believing, then you're almost there!

A million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times.

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

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.

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

The darkness always lies.

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

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.

The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

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.

Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.

If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?

Let me be me, or let me be.

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.