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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.

E. E. Cummings

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
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
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Appearance Minute Moon
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
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
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
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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Beyond Experience Eyes Happiness Myself Silence Touch Travel
Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Existence Gift Live Trick
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Imagination Live Myself One Liner
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Laughter Open Yourself
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
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Fire Heart Love Sea Stars Trust Walk Yourself

One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.

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