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.
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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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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.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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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.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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