Life Quotes Quote by Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.”

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”