51 quotes
“I exist as I am that is enough”
“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.”
“Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. 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”
“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”
“Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“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.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars”
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“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.”
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind 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.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
“I am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.”
“Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
“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”
“I am large I contain multitudes. Among those multitudes is a deep reservoir of peace.”
“I exist as I am in my family and that is enough.”
“I exist as I am and that is enough in the grand solitude of being”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you”
“I am large I contain multitudes”
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
“Peace is always beautiful.”
“I celebrate myself and sing myself”
“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.”
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
“I exist as I am that is enough and time will reveal the rest”
“I do not ask the wounded person how they feel I myself become the wounded person through compassion”
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
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