Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSExists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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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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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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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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