Often, we hate people not because they have wronged us, but because they have reminded us of some secret part of ourselves that we don’t like. Maybe, making peace with the world starts with making peace with ourselves.” Kebaikan bukanlah mata uang, dan jika kamu memperlakukannya seperti itu, maka itu bukanlah kebaikan. Go find a way to be like dust in light, suspended above the carpet, go find a new way to be that doesn’t make you feel like you’re trying to be anything at all.” I couldn't recommend this book enough. And if you know someone who needs to read this, please give them a copy of the book once it hits the shelf. Trust me, maybe all they need to hear are these words. He gave me the emotions, the hopes and fears and disappointments that we all share by simply being human. I got goosebumps while reading and that doesn't happen very often.

De este libro si voy a hablar y es que, es tan difícil reseñar poesía, creo que es una experiencia única para cada uno, pero en este libro me encontré. Y es que es precisamente para y por eso, te dice tantas cosas que en el fondo sabías pero no podías reconocer. Aprendes tantas perspectivas de tus propios sentimientos, lo recomiendo muchísimo, un a-must-read.This work seems to have a theme of finding yourself, accepting who you are, and not being afraid to open yourself to the world. Getting hurt is part of life, messing up is part of life, wanting to be alone at times is part of life; but so is being there when it's important, being brave even when you think you're not, trying again and again and again each day, and being open to all the joys and good the world holds. I was really surprised when I loved the first half! I liked a lot of poems, especially some sentences. After that the poems started to feel repetitive and boring. Some concepts were also a bit weird? I can’t believe I rolled my eyes at a poetry collection! My first try with the audiobook failed miserably because, for me, not all poems can be read with two voices. Or maybe it's my brain that cannot digest the narration, at all. I make a second try with the former format and I couldn't stop reading! Iain S. Thomas is the #1 bestselling author of I Wrote This For You and Intentional Dissonance. He wrote his first book, Ignite, at the age of 23 for the Markham clothing store. It won the Grand Prix at the First Paper House Art Of Design Awards and the only craft prize awarded that year, in the design category, at the national design/advertising awards (The Loeries). You cannot fix me because I am not broken. And even though everything has changed, I am still more than I've ever been.

It’s like everything inside me, everything I have ever wanted to say when my father told me I wouldn’t succeed because I was depressed, when my mother told me to leave her house, when I was the talk of the household and I couldn’t find my voice, when I was bleeding and nobody said anything. I've said all I wanted to say, so I'll close out with one of my favourite passages from the collection: Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place” I know you don't want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you're just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, "this is beautiful," when no one else can see what you see. Or, "Here, this is where the pain is." As a full-time graduate student, graduate assistant, and part-time marketing specialist, I have been insanely busy, and my mental health has started to deteriorate because I haven't had much time for self-care. This book gave me all of the reassurances I needed to get through this semester.Seperti harapan Thomas, ia ingin buku ini menemukan orang yang terwakili dan pembacanya menemukan setiap kata yang tak muncul ke ujung lidah sampai saat buku ini dibaca. Buku dengan model unik seperti ini bukan tanpa alasan ditulisnya. I know this is listed as poetry, and free verse is a thing, but there was a very poetic prose element to this collection that I think bears at least remarking on. This is the first collection I've read by this poet, so I'm not sure if this is a standard to his style. It's a beautiful poetry collection about life and how to navigate through it. Sometimes we're caught up in the midst of all the struggles and sadness of life that we forget to breathe. And on the days we forget to do as little as breathe, and when we need a nudge to keep pushing, poetry books like this, come in handy. I love that these poems spoke to me, the humanity of me, to remind me if I have forgotten that I am who I say I am. And not whom everybody wants me to be, or believe I am. Read more The description said, “May this book find the person it needs to.” And an hour later I screamed, “It was ME!!! I was the one!!” It found me at just the right time. I was searching for “something” to read: a great book, a classic, not too laborious, but thought-provoking, inspiring, emotional. I wanted a book that would speak to me as if it were a part of me already. I just never imagined that such a book existed.

Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are” Tetapi saya tidak tahu, apakah versi terjemahnya masih sehebat itu atau tidak, anda bacalah sendiri. Karyanya telah memenangkan berbagai penghargaan lokal dan internasional dan dapat ditemukan di Communication Arts, Design Indaba Magazine, Ad Vantage Magazine, bestadsontv.com, Contagious Magazine, Archive, The University of Pretoria’s Permanent Design Collection, X-ings: Shaping Culture Through Design Pameran, Galeri Komunikasi Berkelanjutan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, TEDx, Majalah Heso (Jepang) dan http://www.inpursuitofelelegance.com Iain Thomas binds a beautiful book of self-love, anger, purpose and silences that we can’t shake. I’ve read his previous books and there’s a running theme between them, a similarity that would otherwise be overdone but it works for his poems. This collection was exactly what the title promised: every word you can not say. Everything you’ve wanted to say but couldn’t. Every emotion you’ve felt and it couldn’t explain. Every hurt you experienced and couldn’t talk about. From the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of women's strength.This book would make a great graduation gift. If adult life came with an instruction manual - this would be it. We are all seeking, we are all struggling, we are doing the best we can with what we have at any given moment. In 2009, for his work as the author of the art/photography project “I Wrote This For You”, he was voted one of the top 5 finalists in the world in the “Best Blogger To Follow” category on mashable.com under his online pseudonym, pleasefindthis. Bila anda ingin menjanjikan harapan yang indah, sementara kenyataan faktualnya tidak seperti itu, Thomas memberi anda tawaran seperti ini: This poetry collection is all about learning to love and forgive yourself before doing anything else in your life. Ian Thomas is a well known author but for me its the first book I read. I want to change this soon because I absolutely adored it.