Walt Whitman Quotes

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

Give everyone whose life you touch a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.

How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!