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. CUMMINGSExisting’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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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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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. 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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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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