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. CUMMINGSYou 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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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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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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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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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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