Quotes by Edward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.

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.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Life Death

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

Self-Confidence

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

Love

It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake

Relationships

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.

Friendship

The most wasted of all days, is one without laughter.

Laughing & Smile

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

Character

In other words, you don't want to be serious
It takes two to be serious.

Seriousness

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

Massachusetts

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

Massachusetts

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

Massachusetts

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Massachusetts

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

Massachusetts

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Massachusetts

Thanks New Hampshire...
You're the reason 49 other states have to buy signs saying "Buckle up, its the State Law".

New Hampshire

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Hampshire - and that's pretty much the same thing.

New Hampshire

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

Desire Ocean Ships

The human world... it's a mess.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Ocean

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Karl May

Death

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Death

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Patrick in 10 Things I Hate About You

Self-Confidence

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Bob Marley

Love

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

Relationships Marriage

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Love Relationships

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Friendship Family

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

Ozzy Osbourne

Laughing & Smile

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

Laughing & Smile

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Ambition Character Birds

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Seriousness

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

Alex Trebek

Seriousness Craziness & Weirdness

Quotes by Edward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)

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