Joshua Stevens

“There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain.”
― The American Poetry and Literacy Project, 101 Great American Poems

“The Man and His Two Sweethearts A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.”
― Shneur Zalman

“But at his smile I smiled in turn, And into my soul there came a ray: In trying to soothe another’s woes Mine own had passed away.”
― The American Poetry and Literacy Project, 101 Great American Poems