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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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Health Money Place Poor Rich Sad Sick Travel
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Advice Care Deep Love Wisdom
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Deep Eyes Myself One Liner Open
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Deep Mathematics Oneself Wisdom
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice
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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Fight Hard Live Man Try World Yourself
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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Believe Experience Human Listening Ourselves Reveal Risk Spirit Touch Trust Value Wonderful Worth
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Courage Grow Up Yourself
May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Heart Live Myself Open Secret
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Alive Darkness Eyes Myself Sun

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