I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CUMMINGSWe 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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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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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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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