The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSTrust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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 Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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