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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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. CummingsE. E. Cummings Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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The more you suffer, the more you awaken.
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Ana SoulfulAna Soulful The right person will never get tired of you.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
Nikita GillNikita Gill We all carry the heaviest anchors without anyone having a clue about it.
Aaron BellAaron Bell And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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If you sexy and you know it and you ain’t afraid to show it.
RihannaRihanna When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
Alan WattsAlan Watts One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Henry FordHenry Ford People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
Ayn RandAyn Rand I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
Frank OceanFrank Ocean The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia I’m not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It’s a positive agenda.
Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
Imam AliImam Ali
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