I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsRead
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
Interpretation
The quote suggests that life holds value despite struggles, and true beauty remains genuine and unaffected by false perceptions.
E. E. Cummings reflects on the complexity of life, indicating that even when faced with challenges or complaints, one should recognize the intrinsic worth of existence. The imagery of roses represents genuine beauty, contrasting with the idea that people might misinterpret or dilute this beauty by equating it with lesser things (weeds). Ultimately, true beauty endures and remains 'smiling' regardless of outside perceptions or comparisons.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a motivational speech about life's worth.
I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
Our characters are the result of our conduct.
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.
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