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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman
Inspirational, Positive, Happiness
Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman
Happiness, Nature, Carpe Diem
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman
Moments, Define You

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman
Perfect, Miracle, Hours

This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman
Stupid, Hate, Crazy

Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman
Life, Meaningful, Judging
Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Walt Whitman
Teacher, Faces, Helping

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

Walt Whitman
Truth, Simple, Complicated

We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman
Love, Funny, Romantic

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

Walt Whitman
Thinking, Immortality, Swear
Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.59, Haskell House Pub Limited

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Walt Whitman
Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman
Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass
1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?

Walt Whitman
Summer, Beach, Stars
Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman
Funny, Friendship, Believe
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman
Beautiful, Nature, Rude
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman
Inspiration, Enough
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.26, NYU Press

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman
Encouragement, Get Well, Soul
Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Walt Whitman
Travel, Leaves Of Grass, Life Journey
Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.45, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

Walt Whitman
Thinking About You, Thinking, Minutes
Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.85, Courier Corporation

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman
Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Walt Whitman
Long, Forget, Ecstasy

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman
Simple, Expression, Simplicity
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

Walt Whitman
Light, Long, Healthy
'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman
Spiritual, Truth, Soul
Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Walt Whitman
Purpose, Whole, One Thing

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