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“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.”
“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 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“I exist as I am that is enough”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars”
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
“Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
“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 celebrate myself and sing myself”
“I am large I contain multitudes”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”
“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 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”
“Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.”
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
“Peace is always beautiful.”
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
“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.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you”
“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”
“I am large I contain multitudes. Among those multitudes is a deep reservoir of peace.”
“I am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.”
“I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained and full of natural wonder”
“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.”
“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.”
“I exist as I am in my family and that is enough.”
“I do not ask the wounded person how they feel I myself become the wounded person through compassion”
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