The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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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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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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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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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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