e. e. cummings Quotes

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.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

You and I are more than you and I because it's we.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

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.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

As small as a world as large as alone.

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.