1. “Be curious, not judgmental.”

— Walt Whitman

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2. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

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3. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

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4. “Peace is always beautiful.”

— Walt Whitman

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5. “Resist much, obey little.”

— Walt Whitman

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6. “The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

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7. “And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

— Walt Whitman

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8. “The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.”

— Walt Whitman

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9. “Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

— Walt Whitman

10. “Life doesn’t give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need: to love you, to hate you, to make you, to break you, and to make you the person you were meant to be.”

— Walt Whitman

11. “Oh captain my captain.”

— Walt Whitman

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12. “We were together. I forget the rest.”

— Walt Whitman

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13. “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

— Walt Whitman

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14. “The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

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15. “I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

— Walt Whitman

16. “I exist as I am, that is enough.”

— Walt Whitman

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17. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

— Walt Whitman

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18. “I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

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19. “Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

— Walt Whitman

20. “Dismiss whatever insults your soul.”

— Walt Whitman

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21. “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

23. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

— Walt Whitman

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24. “Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

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26. “The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”

— Walt Whitman

27. “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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28. “O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.”

— Walt Whitman

29. “All truths wait in all things.”

— Walt Whitman

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30. “Re-examine all you have been told in school or in 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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31. “I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”

— Walt Whitman

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32. “I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.”

— Walt Whitman

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33. “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

— Walt Whitman

34. “Love, that is day and night – love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.”

— Walt Whitman

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35. “Either define the moment or the moment will define you.”

— Walt Whitman

36. “This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...”

— Walt Whitman

37. “I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”

— Walt Whitman

38. “Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

— Walt Whitman

39. “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”

— Walt Whitman

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40. “Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.”

— Walt Whitman

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41. “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

— Walt Whitman

42. “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.”

— Walt Whitman

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43. “Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

— Walt Whitman

44. “Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”

— Walt Whitman

45. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

— Walt Whitman

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46. “To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

47. “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

— Walt Whitman

48. “Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”

— Walt Whitman

49. “Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?”

— Walt Whitman

50. “Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

— Walt Whitman

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