Emily Dickinson on life
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To be alive-is Power.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Till I loved I never lived.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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