Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone 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 toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Be curious, not judgmental.
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
We were together. I forget the rest.
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
Those who love each other shall become invincible.
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