Curtis Tyrone Jones Quotes

A daily dosage of positive energy so corrosive that it wears out every negative doubt as the gap between the dream & reality closes.

Being emotionally undercut by some friends, can feel like a physical uppercut to the chin, when deep down you just weren't ready for it, again.

Life is never too heavy to pick up where we left off.

I would say that just as easy as a person puts on a raincoat and opens their umbrella before stepping out on a rainy day, you too must put on a new concept of yourself and never take it off, nor pull the umbrella of your imagination down until you see the sun shining on the new situation that you have imagined. You must never be convinced that you are being drenched in your old reality, regardless of how much others are absorbed in it. What is true for them is not true for you, because they are not living in your world. They are not living in your raincoat nor are they living beneath the umbrella of consciousness that you have raised. They may be completely soaked in their world while you remain poised and untouched by unfavorable conditions in your own.

Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered.

Happiness is like water. Remove all obstacles and it'll come rushing in. Or it'll wear away at them slowly and get the last laugh in the end . . . Because ecstasy is our destiny.

Be patient with those who can't see your vision, because sometimes it takes time for eyes to adjust to the light.

Through persistence to a clear vision, the dreamer comes to understand that no matter how unlikely, taboo, or youthful these dreams may appear to be, the belly of the earth can and will still stretch with the conception of the new dream as sure as the belly of a woman can and will stretch with the conception of new life.

The fall of your hair is rushing through my head like elegant waterfalls repeatedly dancing down into an open riverbed.

Even when she's dethroned by hardship, she still wears the sun as a crown.

Wise is the one who learns to dumb it down.

Sometimes changing the game is as simple as finding a few people who play by the same rules as you.

Earth is the ball. Humanity is the goal.

If you really wanna fly, learn to befriend the winds.

Exercise your genius so often that you live in a perpetual state of runners high.

Dear wanderer, come in and let the weight of the world's straps slide from the downcast face of your unhappy shoulders, because the universe is a bartender and life is a perpetual party where all the drunken birds join with songs to sing the anthem of your beautiful existence.

We walk all over the earth but it never complains of being a doormat. So we give it the highest title of love, adoration and family: praising it for mothering every species and the whole of all humanity.

If you can dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.

Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.

The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.

It's so hard to think about designing our dream home when all l wanna do is lay you out like a blueprint & bring you the lumber you require.

I'll be the mountain whose whispers trigger you to stop running & start becoming the lovely yet stunning avalanche you most certainly are.

We all crash and burn. Some of us just burn a little brighter.

Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.

You're only as good as your last thought of yourself.

How is it you're so ensconced with the darkness of earth, when I sit here like your moon gushing with the light of your infinite worth?

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

I'll pour my life into your hands like oceans upon your sands if you can always stand to take a little more of me.

Nothing compares to becoming aware of the massive face of the universe hidden in a newborn's stare.

Sometimes your passion must go up in flames before you can go down in history.

Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

Often there's a secret courage hidden in the pocket of our deepest fears saying, "Bring it on, motherfucker".

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.

In love madly,
traveling though the
life-raft's unraveling
in a beautiful tragedy,
but gladly i'm still
paddling through
the ocean
of your
anatomy.

Depression was my body's way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination's way of redefining them.

Sometimes the meaning in life hits you like a meteorite.

Lost in wonder staring at you, I bumped my head on the moon & fell, hard.

Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

The earth is a seed planted in space; the darkest and yet the richest soil in the universe.

I keep
holding up
the mirror of the sun,
so you can see the stunning
reflections of everything
you're becom-
ing.

When people change & make you feel small, I'll tuck you into my pocket & feed you cheese, until courage coaxes the tiger out of your rib cage.

The peasants of love pillage the town of my prideful heart until I burn with compassion.

Sometimes we must gravitate towards madness before we can levitate on greatness.

One of the greatest keys to happiness is realizing it has no doors.

There's a deep knowing beneath the epicenter of our anxious asking. Meet me there, & stillness will voice its soothing certainties with us.

Her body is a philosophical novel that proves the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.

Life will break every one of your contracts & still look at you with that innocent glimmer in her eye & ask you to marry her.

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.

Summer is a gentleman: slowly warming the earth at length before undressing her in the fall.

She's has craters you didn't create and darkness you don't deserve. She's as stunning as the moon on a cloudless night, but it may take millennia for her to find and manifest her own internal sunlight.

The head is bigger but the heart is infinitely more powerful.

We light up around anyone who makes us feel screwed in, to the universe.

You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.

Sometimes i don't have enough soul in my cheeks to show my face to the world.

To be brutally truthful, the removal of your noodle from seeking other people's futile approval to be you, is one of the most beautiful steps to flight, where wings flap to freedom from so many deadly traps.

Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.

The deeper the journey into inner space, the further the possibilities in outer space.

Sometimes people with the greatest depth, appear to be like fish out of water.

The moon & sun were just friends til that night the sun couldn't depart before dark snowed in under an avalanche of stars & poetry was born.

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.

Fire the voices in your head if they haven't been working much.

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

There's no key to great relationships, there's simply a well worn welcome mat.

You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.

Sometimes it's easier to gain traction once you slow the spinning wheels.

Sometimes people have no idea what drives you & the unlimited gears you've developed inside you, so they try to teach you how to steer.

Sometimes we need a wise guide to peel back the ceiling of our lives to remind us that infinity never places any limits on our skies.

I keep planting my smile in the rich soil of your sadness, hoping one day love will bloom from your thoroughly saturated heart.

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

When the artist leaves a painting on a wall with the full confidence that the mastery of his skill, soul and vision will draw others into its vortex long after he is gone, he is using the grip of seduction. When the musician's performance, the manipulation of her instrument and the command of her talents are so raw and uninhibited that onlookers feel connected to the cosmos, bridged by the pure genius they are now experiencing, she is using the mystery of seduction. The unexplainable feeling fans get when the athlete ceases to be an athlete and rises to the level of the untouchable magician that can make anything happen, is nothing less than the power of seduction at work. The immense value of seduction is its ability to skillfully allure others into one's world . . . .

Those who
disrespect you
with their mouth
don't deserve
your ear.

When I saw you I knew the universe had mastered my love language & I'd go through any amount of anguish to be a student of its genius.

She tucks the veil of her hair behind the crescent moon of her ear to reveal the stars in her eyes.

‪Repel people in your mind and you'll repel them in your life. See others as above you in your mind and you'll be below them in your life. Love people in your mind and connect with them in life. The brainwaves we send out are the only ones others will surf back to our shores.‬

Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.

We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.

i find you
in every echo,
i find you in every
dream, i find you
in every feeling
in the depths
of my inner
being.

The night sky is a dignified black princess freckled with the stars. Get lost in her beauty to find it in your darkness.

A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight.

You can't hammer yourself with hatred and build a life of happiness.

You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.

Come be the stampede of emotion standing on this dancing ocean, as I empty out this flood within, down to the last drop of this naked pen.