The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
E. E. CUMMINGSYours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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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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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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Only by you my heart always moves.
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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