We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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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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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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