A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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