It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGSTo 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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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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 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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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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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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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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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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