E. E. Cummings

" 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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" The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. "
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Being , Self , Esteem , Yourself
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" Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. "
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Light , stars , Moon
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" It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. "
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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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" 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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Trust , Life
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" The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. "
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Funny , Life
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" The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. "
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Reality , Firsts
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" 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. "
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Love , Life , Uplifting
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" The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. "
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Nature , Spring , Summer
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" 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. "
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Life , You
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" Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. "
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Love , Trust , stars
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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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Thinking , Believe
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E. E. Cummings
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14-10-1894 03-09-1962 Poet, Playwright, Painter citation
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