57 Quotes & Sayings By Levon Peter Poe

Levon Peter Poe is an author, journalist, broadcaster, and public speaker. Originally from the West Indies, he immigrated to Canada in 1958 at 19 years of age. He has written numerous books and articles as well as producing and hosting a weekly radio program for many years called "The Human Side of Life." He lives in London, Ontario.

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Release your Mind and go outside the box. Explore things that you may be afraid of. Experience life that you are not aware of. You will then know what you have never known before. You will be a new person with each new experience Levon Peter Poe
Too often our intellect gets in the way of our...
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Too often our intellect gets in the way of our hearts thereby blocking what instinctually can be drawn to us bringing happiness Levon Peter Poe
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Continuing education is about continuing to grow. To never lose sight of bettering oneself and being able to realize that an idea they had so long ago was obtainable. Age does not determine education. Education does not stop at a certain age. Education stops when we lack desire to learn and improve ourselves. Levon Peter Poe
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I have found the temperament of being a thoughtful man is sometimes excruciatingly painful. People become accustomed to the fact that your kindness is part of your personality and therefore any action you take will be based on being civil minded toward others and seemingly not wanting to disappoint anyone. This is of course the wrong view. Being thoughtful does not mean you are a pushover or a stuck in the mud type, seemingly stationary in your attitudes and ambitions. It means you take the time to have consideration of events and people around you. You do not make hasty decisions based solely on observation or emotion. Analysis is a tool for the thoughtful individual. Levon Peter Poe
We all experience sadness. The real test is being strong...
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We all experience sadness. The real test is being strong enough to continue on regardless. Levon Peter Poe
All things we involve ourselves with should be of love....
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All things we involve ourselves with should be of love. If it is not of love, stay away from it. Levon Peter Poe
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We must look at things with new eyes. Work to live. To enjoy the life we have now and prepare for our lives to come. Not live to work, which is to eternally be a slave to a process of task to provide us with basic sustenance for a continued pitiful existence! I strive to live and love not simply survive and endure Levon Peter Poe
Our media is a WHORE
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Our media is a WHORE Levon Peter Poe
Evils carries the numbers 666. I am an opposite. I...
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Evils carries the numbers 666. I am an opposite. I am 999. Levon Peter Poe
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If you love someone, you NEED to tell them this:" I AM YOURS! NO ONE can make me change that. I SUBMIT my heart to you. I give you MY LIFE not because I have to but because I trust you to care for it. I Love you. That shall never change. EVER! "Say it to them so they hear it. Prove it to them so they KNOW IT.Live it with them so they never doubt it. Levon Peter Poe
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If you love someone, you NEED to tell them this:" I AM YOURS! NO ONE can make me change that. I SUBMIT my heart to you. I give you MY LIFE not because I have to but because I trust you to care for it. I Love you. That shall never change. EVER! "Say it to them so they hear it. Prove it to them so the KNOW IT.Live it with them so they never doubt it. Levon Peter Poe
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Let me take you to the places you don't want to go. Let me thrill you and kill you and create you and make you. Let me rape your soul and destroy what you had been. Let me see you transformed into something dark and new Levon Peter Poe
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The only permanence is change Levon Peter Poe
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Sometimes in this world, all you have is YOU! Stand strong and tall. No one will do it for you Levon Peter Poe
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Revenge is an ugly thing. "He who seeks revenge digs two graves" I only say this because there are circumstances of life where JUSTICE IS NOT ENOUGH OR JUSTICE CAN'T BE HANDED DOWN. Those circumstances require to be AVENGED. This is when you MUST INFLICT PENALTY OR PUNISHMENT for that pain or harm done to you or another. To avenge a wrong is to seek vengeance or revenge. To make right that which was done wrong especially if that wrong caused grievous harm to you or another. This is a situation where vengeance or to avenge or to seek revenge is RIGHT AND JUST! . My explanation also should put some clarity on the old saying "Revenge is a dish best served COLD! . Levon Peter Poe
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A good human being can still be molded from bad clay Levon Peter Poe
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Education has turned into a cookie mill. everyone recieves the same degree, the same council, the same formula of inspiration and ideas to make them a MODEL of an educated being. But that is the problem. No 2 people are alike so why subscribe to a system that makes everyone EXACTLY alike? A system that will never recognize the individual or a persons uniqueness? We must re-train our brains to think and not merely respond to a set of patterns that we have been TRAINED to act on. We must learn to think more creatively, See with new eyes and view the symbols of the world around us with a wider scope of view. Levon Peter Poe
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I ask myself questions. Questions that may not have answers. Questions that may have answers too frightening to face. But I believe that no knowledge should be forbidden but it is in the use of certain types of knowledge that should not be used under specific circumstances. Can our desire to understand all things be also a desire to bring about our own destruction or our salvation? What is forbidden knowledge? What should be left unknown and considered unknowable? I ask myself questions. Levon Peter Poe
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Keep your circle of friends small, tight and right Levon Peter Poe
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Move forward not back. The people, places and things that brought you down only need you to bring you lower. STAY AWAY! Levon Peter Poe
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You create yourself by becoming something new each day Levon Peter Poe
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It is in difficult times we must remember that whatever burden we carry, it can make us stronger and build more character in us. We don’t grow from an easy life. Ease makes us like cattle sitting in the field and grazing. Existing without purpose or drive or desire. When pain or complications come to us, that is when we must become ALIVE.Our intellects begin to function at full power. We have desire and drive and acquire the power to CREATE solutions to these complications. We are no longer cattle. We stand up and become MEN of action! . Levon Peter Poe
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Dream those dreams you can only dream. Reach for the heavens that call to you and do not be afraid to stare into the sun or walk boldly into darkness. This is a guide toward your greatest journey. This is your sign to create and become the light. It is when you close your eye’s and have faith that the real adventures of your life begin. Levon Peter Poe
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I figured out when I was young that things don’t make you happy, people don’t make you happy. Only by finding that which always existed inside you will you know what happiness is. Life is transitory, we all come and go. Things are gained, lost or eventually breakdown. Having a mind and heart that fosters good will toward others, a soul that seeks to elevate itself above human designs, only then will we be able to know our TRUE SELVES. None of us are born who we are but we can become who we are meant to be. Levon Peter Poe
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No man was ever a great success traveling an easy pre-made road. All great things REQUIRE sweat, tears and maybe even some blood spilled to be accomplished. The average man walks the easy road, the innovators CREATE the road! Levon Peter Poe
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Our identities are forged in the fires of trial. What we become after those fires always burn’s forever into the future we create. Our lives are meant to merge into a destiny of the consciousness of the world. Move forward with a purpose and sight on your destiny, your goal. If you fall down a few times, GET YOUR ASS BACK UP! The future is frightening but must be faced head on and best to do so with a little courage and hope than with cringing fear and utter hopelessness. Manifest your own destiny. CREATE YOUR FUTURE! CREATE YOU!. Levon Peter Poe
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Forget being like someone else. You are not a copy. You are a one of a kind MASTERPIECE.Realize this and become who you are. Your like will never come this way again. Only you can be you! Levon Peter Poe
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In America, it is the CELEBRATION OF THE DOUCHEBAG, and that applies to men AND women. So many absolutely WORTHLESS people who contribute NOTHING to the betterment of mankind have found Riches and fame while so many others who desire to do so much FOR OTHERS have found nothing but poverty, homelessness, being exiled for their ideas and generally shunned because they DARE TO CARE! . Levon Peter Poe
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There is nothing wrong with being Human. What is wrong is how so many take for granted the gift of our being human and never learn that we are also to be HUMANE, hence our HUMANITY. We are born Man but it takes years of education, trial and error to be TRULY HUMAN. It takes an ability to see beyond yourself, and to be able to RELINQUISH YOUR EGO And that is something that far too many neglects to consider in their chase for life, liberty and the pursuit of PRODUCTS. Things can never make us happy and the accumulation of wealth only aids in separating us from our common cause to be ONE SOCIETY. ONE RACE. ONE MANKIND. Until we are equal and able to see eye to eye with our most base concerns of housing, Food, education and financial well-being solved, we shall never have a society of ONE! . Levon Peter Poe
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A man who cant discuss ideas, especially those that are not a reflection of him, is not open to himself Levon Peter Poe
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We shall find the time. Time to grow and learn and create. Time to enjoy and love and be loved. Time to remember and laugh and cry. Time to be courageous and wise and simple. Time to explore and develop and evolve. Time to find things, lose things and re-find things. Time to live and die and be re-born. Time to hug and kiss and make love and make babies. We shall find the time. And when we do We shall find it is ENOUGH! . Levon Peter Poe
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Show me someone without problems and I will show you someone who is dead. Levon Peter Poe
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When two people love one another, they fight the world together, not each other "~ Levon Peter Poe Levon Peter Poe
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You know that I know that I know that you know that I know my path. Levon Peter Poe
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A prayer never prayed is never answered. Levon Peter Poe
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In our very ordinariness', we are capable of extraordinary actions Levon Peter Poe
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...in the end, we as individuals must make the best of our lives. Fix our households, educate ourselves. Learn to live peacefully and within our means. Spread love and not hate to others regardless of the poison they may spread. Life is like that. What we bring to the table of life is what we will have to eat. Levon Peter Poe
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...And while you are alive, there are situations that may crush your bones and body to take away your physical strength. Don't EVER let this world or ANYONE crush and take away the POWER of THE HUMAN SPIRIT we all possess. Levon Peter Poe
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Whatever robe of honor or deceit people may wear, I will still treat everyone with kindness Levon Peter Poe
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I will NEVER allow fear of the unknown to stop me from progressing forward with my life. All things are knowable. All it takes is wide open eye's, a disciplined mind and a calm heart to get anyone through the storms of life. Fear can be a tool to make you STRONGER and WISER. Levon Peter Poe
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All these moments of sadness, of discomfort, of pain shall pass. The suffering you experience today will make you stronger for your tomorrows to come. You will be better. You will be Great. You will be happy and well and a success. You will finally touch the heavens that you aspired to Levon Peter Poe
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Before I met you I WAS BLIND! I see things so differently since we have found each other. I see with eye's of wonder and a heart that is softer. YOU MADE ME! And I can never be what I was because NOW I have become something BETTER than what I was. Levon Peter Poe
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If I don't write every single day, I feel like I am off balance. My mind does not work correctly. I actually feel a sensation like an ache going on inside me equivalent to when a person misses a loved one. Levon Peter Poe
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We may be invisible to the powers that be but we are many and our invisibility makes us stealthy like ninjas. We can sneak up on the corrupt society and TAKE BACK what they took away Levon Peter Poe
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Act with caution but not fear Levon Peter Poe
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Know who you are. You may think you are powerless but the greatest battles are fought and won by the warrior who is least noticed or anticipated to win Levon Peter Poe
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There are 3 ways to tell a lie:1 - Tell only part of the truth which makes the truth a deception of convenience.2 - Tell the whole truth but do it so unconvincing that it is perceived to be a lie 3 - Just all out fabricate a lie Levon Peter Poe
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I do not fear death. I fear dying incomplete Levon Peter Poe
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I wish to see an embracing of differences. A way to bridge ourselves to others without loss of identity. There should be a school of thought.that see's the furthest horizon without fear of a burning sun. Let us have a new design for our sun away from that old one. The sun that can blind and bake and burn friendships. And make it a light that can bring each other out of the dark. I wish to see the star's shine overhead. Shine the light of better dreams into the sleeping many. And when they wake let them remember those dreams. Those dreams of a realm of men lived in unity among all men. Those dreams of giving without want and helping without cost.- From " No Bullshit . Levon Peter Poe
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Without a plan we are floating aimlessly in an ocean of circumstance letting the waves take us where they may. But with a plan, we can steer ourselves in the direction we want to go. Sometimes we get lucky and things happen fast — our destination is reached in a timely manner. Sometimes it takes longer than we expect. Nonetheless, we are STEERING the boat. WE ARE IN COMMAND. And we will reach our goal. Levon Peter Poe
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I would rather attempt to do something I want to do regardless of how impossible it may seem than do something I don't want to do regardless of how easy it is to achieve Levon Peter Poe
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Family is not just blood. It is the person who stands with you when the odds are impossible, the one who cries with you when your sadness is overwhelming. The individual who sacrifice of their time, talent and care just to let you know you are not alone. These are people that are also your family. They have the blood of the soul running in their veins. The same soul you have Levon Peter Poe
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It is the simple things that give me peace. it is how I keep going by focusing on bettering my life now and life to come. It lightens my heart and mind. Calms me. Makes me see life a little brighter. You must Never stop believing that you shall make it out of the dark and into the warmth and healing of the sunlight. STAYING STRONG Levon Peter Poe
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Carry yourself with a quiet demeanor. Let your actions be your lesson to the world to see. Let people remember you for your wisdom and your delight at helping others. Be fair to all man. Judge not another unless you are prepared to be judged. Remember the vow you spoke on the birth of your soul and your dedication of spreading wisdom to your fellow man. Be a person of Noble heart. Be a Warrior Of The Light! . Levon Peter Poe
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Whoever and whatever you envision yourself to be, you be it! Your destiny is a matter of you overcoming your environment and deciding you shall become who you want to be. The first rule you need to know is FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION! Each day the whole world conspires to beat you, bend you, break you and mold you into a shape of its creation and turn you into another of its mass produced puppets. The world wants to take away your individuality, your uniqueness, with each breath you take. Well Fuck ALL THAT! Every day you make damn sure you wake up in the morning, give thanks to God for another day, get out of bed and say it loud like you proud to the world - “I am who I am, deal with it, Bitch!. Levon Peter Poe
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I am not responsible for what another man thinks. I do claim responsibility for helping another man think Levon Peter Poe