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