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.
E. E. CUMMINGSSuppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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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 eyes of my eyes are opened.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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