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.
E. E. CUMMINGSUnless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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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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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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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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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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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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