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.
E. E. CUMMINGSHere’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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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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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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