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. CUMMINGSAnd this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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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.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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We can never be born enough.
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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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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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