Wisdom Quote by Walt Whitman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Resist much, obey little.”

“I have said that the soul is not more than the body,”

“Peace is always beautiful.”

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;”

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

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“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”

“Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?”

“Misfortunes make us wise”

“Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.”

“When you focus on the pain, you suffer. When you focus on the lesson, you evolve.”

“As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.”