The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. e. e. cummings More Quotes by e. e. cummings More Quotes From e. e. cummings The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. e. e. cummings loving-life being-yourself self-esteem 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. e. e. cummings trust inspirational life Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. e. e. cummings stars light moon 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. cummings motivational graduation inspirational 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. e. e. cummings uplifting love life Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. e. e. cummings trust stars love It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. e. e. cummings motivational birthday inspirational The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. e. e. cummings steps reality firsts You and I are more than you and I because it's we. e. e. cummings Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing. e. e. cummings opening laughing ...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. e. e. cummings fate destiny alive 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. e. e. cummings inspirational believe thinking i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new. e. e. cummings kissing eye love Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel. e. e. cummings miracle feels 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. e. e. cummings thank-you inspirational life I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. e. e. cummings dance teacher inspirational Only by you my heart always moves. e. e. cummings my-heart heart moving Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e. e. cummings confidence life believe The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'. e. e. cummings three memorable travel the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses e. e. cummings small-hands eye inspirational
