The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CUMMINGSExisting’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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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–
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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.
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