Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
— e. e. cummings
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Everything’s a story - You are a story - I am a story.
—
Frances Hodgson Burnett
(via misswallflower)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
— Henry David Thoreau
