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

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,”

“Why should I wish to see God better than this day?”

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”

“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love;”

“I believe in the flesh and the appetites;”

“Here’s what’s difficult to say, but must be said: transformation has costs. When you begin to change, some people will not come with you. Some parts of your life will not survive your honesty. Some identities will have to be relinquished. Some comforts will be lost.”

“The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.”

“In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”

“Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.”

“Static knowledge is useless if not made Kinetic.”

“The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.”