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.
E. E. CUMMINGSFor whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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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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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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