Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CUMMINGSIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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)
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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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’.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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We can never be born enough.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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