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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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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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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