Cody Miller Quotes

Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.

The strength of a kingdom comes from its King, The strength of a King comes from his Queen.

Forgiving unforgivable things is real forgiveness. Loving unlovable things is real love. Seeing someone’s inner most monster and choosing to stay is true loyalty. (It’s not something everyone can do)

The only way to truly win, is to risk losing.

In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of darkness, she was light, In a world of indifference, she cared, In a world of flaws, she was perfect, In my life of nothing, she was my world.

They say it takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye, Fill your life with the people who you want to spend forever saying goodbye to.

The wounds on my heart are packed with broken promises, blood and stardust. I won’t lie, it fucking hurts. But it’s worth it to carry bits of you with me.

Being a people is hard.

Comprehension is the ability to follow an explanation. Understanding is the ability to be able to lead if needed.

We pick at scabs of a bleeding heart because we don’t want time to carry on and allow the wound to heal and scar over, we wish to perpetuate, prolong, and preserve the last time they were close to us, before they walked away.

I glanced up at the trees too. Dead. Every one of them gray and white, needles rusted, leaves shriveled at the tips of branches. All the life sucked out of them. Not just the trees. All the plants, ferns, grasses and brush were shriveled, brown, barren. As if a month of winter had set down right here in my driveway and gone on a killing spree. ... "Love what you've done with the landscape," Cody said. "You could open your own business, you know." ... "The hell you talking about, Miller?" I asked Cody. "Yard care. You're poison and weed whacker all in one. You can call it Death to All Shrubbery.

After hearing about the Caracas experiment, the benefits of exposure to animals and farm dirt, and the protective qualities in raw milk, it became clear to me that Cody’s assertions had some good scientific backing. Each of these factors played a role in raising resilient animals (and humans). Interestingly, the dirt, the worms, and the farm milk all worked in a similar way: In rare instances they caused illness, but more often they protected against diseases by boosting the host’s innate immunity and dampening the host’s inflammatory response to allergens and other foreign substances.

Every tree in the Forrest, was once just a seed who thought it was dying.

In his mind, (located somewhere above his ears, or so he believed, due to the way just hearing her name could move his heart) he knew she was a star. Yet he held no overly grandiose visions of her. He knew she wasn't the biggest or brightest, not the closest, nor the warmest, not even the only one. But to him, he saw a magic in her, a comfort, a place that felt; like home. And without being able to see her up there, well, to him, the sky might as well be fucking empty.

Sorrow is a robin with a broken wing, unable to fly. Pain is having it crawl into my wounds and nest inside my chest. Agony is knowing it's always going to be there and still feeling so alone.

And there he was, dead. He had finally succumbed to the exhaustion, no longer could he tread the waters of the sea inside him, he drowned in the ocean of unspilled tears within his chest.

Sometimes thoughts cling to me like leaches, and I fear that if I can’t free myself from them, they will drain me of everything.

The silence of my sanity speaks volumes.

A problem with living in past memories is, it ends up eventually leading to the present moment that you're trying so hard to escape from.

Time is a placebo medication, it only helps you if you believe it can, it only heals you if you let it.

Be hated for your truth, rather than loved for your lies.

Until you learn from your mistakes, you will fail in the same ways.

If it’s not truth, Don’t remember it, Don’t write it down, Don’t say it.

The past is your road traveled thus far, the future your destination, the present an obstacle that must be overcome to reach the latter.

If time and space are infinite than there is always room for the impossible.

The past has but one answer. The future however is multiple choice.

A hurricane storm of wings surge inside my stomach, a butterfly army rages with a passion as they rattle the ivory bars of their ribbed cage.

Today I have a good feeling, that tomorrow will be the beginning of the end of all your bad yesterdays.

Greatness is for those who work for it, Mediocrity is for those who accept it.

A visceral attraction derived from the mystery in the stars. A harsh truth of human existence is searching for a universal answer to a question we don’t know how to ask.

Solitude can make you wise and give you peace, Isolation can drive you insane and make you crazy.

Puzzle pieces are all different, they may sometimes be shaped the same, sometimes the images on their face may look similar. Yet each one is unique, each one special. Each one strange, each weird, each obscure, yet every single one is proof of perfection.

Star crossed lovers” A term used to describe two souls whose love is doomed to end in tragedy. Why? Because they defy the ethereal wisdom of the universe, the ancient laws of which are written in the constellations themselves. These people are by no means evil, it’s just that they together create a power that rivals that of any other, and it's that power in the end that ultimately destroys them.

Pick out the mirrored shards from your makeshift mask. Strip away the layers of lies from your ramshackle crown. Cut out cynicism cysts that grow on your patchwork heart.

Real friends are ones who you tell things, before sharing them with facebook.

Sometimes people need monsters in their lives to coax out the hero from the shadows.

So many dreams seem ill fitting, while nightmares all seem to fit just right.

Hope and faith are two ends of the belief spectrum.

Too much sanity will drive you insane.

Those who think we only have five senses clearly have no imagination.

You need the dark to see the stars.

Time means nothing when fear controls you.

She had brought out the best in me, but when she left she took that part with her.

Scars are war paint, there to prove how many times we survived battles.

Saying sorry does not fix anything, ONLY fixing things fixes things.

Your ability to talk seriously about improbable things tells a lot about you.

The heart, a mausoleum to shelter dead emotions from the ravages of time.

Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want it to at-least sparkle.

We sometimes demonstrated a kind of destructive elegance, as we fight to kill that which makes us unique.

Sometimes the pounding of your heart when it’s in love awakens all the sleeping monster and emotions in you.

If you don’t learn to laugh at yourself, You'll miss out on a lot of good jokes in life.

Don’t trade your identity for acceptance, Be the strangest, freakiest, most unique version of yourself that you can be.

If Rock N Roll really is devil music, then Hell just became more appealing.

The mysteries of the universe are but overtures to the experience of love.

Destiny is how things start, Fate is how things end.

Sometimes we push people away to see if they will come back, to test their commitment. Sometimes we let ourselves be pushed away waiting to be asked back, to test their caring.

Every time you tell yourself "you had to lie to them" two lies are told.

Love someone in all the ways you want to love yourself.

If you don’t believe that your ideal match is out there, and looking for you. Then you are giving up on them, they hang from a cliff and you just let go.

Two kinds of people stay down, victims, and the dead.

Two kinds of people stay down, victims, and the dead. Two kinds of people get back up, heroes, and fools.

People with broken hearts are often the best kind, due to the simple fact that there are more pieces of them to love.

We are all but fireflies looking for that special someone’s mason jar heart to call home.

You are greater than the sum of the pieces of your broken heart.

Patch my wounds with shadows, Soon to be more dark than light.

Liquor stars, and shot glass wishes. Here’s to drowning memories, and the sorrows that learned to swim.

You can’t blame people for leavening if you didn't try to do anything to prove you wanted them to stay.

One day you will find the person who is everything that all the rest pretended to be.

Love is an ethereal enigmatic being that resides just beyond the static. Something outside our frequency of understanding, but is within our reach to experience.

Let your words be music, allow your actions to be the dance to accompany them.

Let the tears you shed today, bloom your flowers of tomorrow.

They had sadness in their eyes, yet their lips had the potential to smile.

To have a bleeding heart, is to have found someone worth cutting it open for.

Sometimes people need a good person to listen to their bad thoughts.

Being in love is like being in a straitjacket. It holds you tight, yet usually means you’ve gone crazy.

Love is the most ancient form of self-destruction,

Others see you as a storm, I see you as a rainbow yet to show itself.

Perched upon the razors edge of ambiguity sits the words. Friendship, Trust, Forever, Love, Truth.

If they don’t inspire you to believe in magic, to chase the impossible, To be a better version of you. then they are not "THE ONE".

Judging people by what you see is so unimaginative; I like to judge them by what I think their unicorn would look like.

It’s better to have a light heart and a dark mind than for the opposite to be true.

The perfect swan made the ugliest duckling.

Nobody knows how to be human, we’re all just flailing around making it up as we go.

If you are not willing to hurt for it, then you don’t really want it.

You ARE a hero, make peace with the dragon inside you, lest you burn alive.

One cannot know true peace without first knowing war.

Some people will hurt you in ways that will never heal.

I can't change the frequency to which my soul resonates, I can not alter the vibrations of my heart.

To be capable of great love, (that of myths, legends, and fairy tales), one must have had more so, greatly suffered, (that of bleeding heart nightmares)

Eloquently unrefined, I am a poetic savage and a masterful fuckup.

We are not meant to survive our lives, we are meant to live them. We are not meant to die unscathed in pristine condition. We are meant to die with scars, emotional and physical, each one there to remind us of what we have overcome, each one there to chronicle our lives. Make your life a story worth reading. A tale worth telling. A lesson worth learning.

Did you ever think the scarecrow just wants a hug?

The grindstone has only good intentions for the blade.

If the universe all came from nothing, imagine what you could do when you’re at your lowest point.

Driving yourself crazy is faster than walking.

The stronger the person, the harder the struggle.

If loving yourself was easy everyone would do it.

If I think you're normal, I don’t know you well enough.

A noose of words wrapped softly, gently, caressing-ly around your neck. You stand oh so close to the edge, you JUMP and hope your wings work before your neck snaps.

In my mind I run a wayward home for misfit monsters, the more I take in, the less the world sees.