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. CUMMINGSI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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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 eyes of my eyes are opened.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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