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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. CummingsE. E. Cummings Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on address
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
John BergerJohn Berger And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
William CowperWilliam Cowper We don’t have an address,” i said, “but we do know where he works.” “are you thinking what i’m thinking?” vee asked, eyes brightening briefly through the haze of chemical sedation. “based on past experience, i hope not.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp
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