Walt Whitman quotes

" Be curious, not judgmental. " # Judgment and Judges

" The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. " # Habit # Arts and Artists # Desire

" If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. " # Body

" To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. " # Miracles # Time and Time Management # Love

" This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one 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 towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. " # Life and Living # Love # Books - Reading

" Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. " # Friends and Friendship # Courage # Things and Little Things

" A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. " # Flowers # Books - Reading # Metaphysics

" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. " # Nature # Life and Living # Love

" Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. " # Fortune

" I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, " # Money