“Here's to opening and upward…
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.”
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E.E. Cummings 208
American poet 1894–1962Related quotes
“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”
Source: Keeping the Moon
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 17. How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds
Context: I groaned with horror, doubting whether I was not out of my senses; but the Stranger continued: "Surely you must now see that my explanation, and no other, suits the phenomena. What you call Solid things are really superficial; what you call Space is really nothing but a great Plane. I am in Space, and look down upon the insides of the things of which you only see the outsides. You could leave this Plane yourself, if you could but summon up the necessary volition. A slight upward or downward motion would enable you to see all that I can see.
Give up the small life, the petty life, the mean life, the restricted life, the little personal life which shuts you in - give it up and follow the light of the Star within you.
The Masters and the Path of Occultism (1939)
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.”