You 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.
E. E. CUMMINGSMay my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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