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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

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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Deep Growth Hope Life Love Mindset Myself Relationship Secret Sky Soul Tree
And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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Breathe Laughter Love Myself Reason
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Born Light Moon Myself Spirit Stars Sun
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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Beyond Experience Eyes Happiness Myself Silence Touch Travel
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Heart Live Myself Open Secret
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Bird Head Live Song
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
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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Believe Feeling Moments People Thinking Yourself
Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Carry Flower Head Life Man Old
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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