E. E. Cummings on choice
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.”
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You shall above all things be glad and young.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
Lal Bahadur ShastriLal Bahadur Shastri Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
Charles R. SwindollCharles R. Swindoll Raided my heart, after you lust for me among others, for some reason you chose me it was chaos at first sight.
JadeJade My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I choose who and what stays on my mind. I am creator of every thought and feeling.
BK ShivaniBK Shivani A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Orson WellesOrson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson WellesOrson Welles Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
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