Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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Only by you my heart always moves.
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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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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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