E.e. Cummings Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

In hindsight everything is much clearer. — Bart Cummings

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

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

A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. — E. E. Cummings

She's beautiful to look at, she's new, she's clean, and perfectly cut. But then you get up and look closely and see that she's not real. She's a fake. She doesn't glimmer like a natural diamond or hold the beauty and unbreakable strength of a real diamond. She's just a manufactured piece of glass. Not the real deal. And sooner or later, that pig headed owner is gonna realize that fake diamonds can never pass for the real ones, no matter how much you wish they would. — Bink Cummings

Here's to opening and upward ...
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing. — 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

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance — E. E. Cummings

Our children are ever both joy and bane, are they not? — Carole Cummings

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do — E. E. Cummings