I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSTrust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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We can never be born enough.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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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 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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