E. E. Cummings on brave
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.”
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson I hope you’re brave enough to let go of a future that was never truly yours, that you never really wanted that was imposed upon you by dreams that were never really your own.
Taj AroraTaj Arora You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don’t see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.
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