The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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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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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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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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