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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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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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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