The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSAs small as a world as large as alone.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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