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“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”
“Whoever you are come forth. You must not stay sleeping and dallying in the house of your family though you built it or though it has been built for you.”
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
“I exist as I am that is enough”
“I am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.”
“Peace is always beautiful.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
“Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
“I exist as I am that is enough and time will reveal the rest”
“I exist as I am and that is enough in the grand solitude of being”
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
“After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on and found that none of these finally satisfy what remains is nature.”
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”
“I celebrate myself and sing myself”
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
“I am large I contain multitudes”
“I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions but really I am neither for nor against institutions what I am after is a new beginning”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars”
“I am large I contain multitudes. Among those multitudes is a deep reservoir of peace.”
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained and full of natural wonder”
“I do not ask the wounded person how they feel I myself become the wounded person through compassion”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”
“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street.”
“Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
“I exist as I am in my family and that is enough.”
“Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you”
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