E. E. Cummings on courage
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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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.
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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Only by you my heart always moves.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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Courage is listening, learning, unlearning, knowing when to lead, and knowing when to let others lead.
Brene BrownBrene Brown I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?
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