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e. e. cummings Quotes: Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).
         

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).


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



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.

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.



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

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



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



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

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



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



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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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