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. CUMMINGSRemember 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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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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 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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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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