Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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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

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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

Walt Whitman

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We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Walt Whitman

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

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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

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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Walt Whitman

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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Walt Whitman

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Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.

Walt Whitman

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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

Walt Whitman

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

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