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.
E. E. CUMMINGSOne’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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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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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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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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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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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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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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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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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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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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