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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Young Yourself
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Goodness Let Go Listening Universe
Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Carry Flower Head Life Man Old
Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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Artist Hate Love Night Trust
May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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Bird Heart Live Man Old Secret Sing
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Burn Greatness Man
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
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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Creation Obsession Poet Writing
Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Comfortable One Liner Progress Sick
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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Breathe Laughter Love Myself Reason
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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Alive Destiny Determination Inspirational Motivational Remember Yourself
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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Believe Experience Human Listening Ourselves Reveal Risk Spirit Touch Trust Value Wonderful Worth
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.
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Deep Eyes Myself Rose Understand Voice

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