Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. Cummings on believe
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.”
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Love is the whole and more than all.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Debbie FordDebbie Ford Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Gordon B. HinckleyGordon B. Hinckley What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
Sam HarrisSam Harris The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Quincy JonesQuincy Jones I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.
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