Walt Whitman on acceptance
“I accept reality and dare not question it.”
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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We should never be disappointed with money; Because we only get what we have got.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Clinton The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
Dick GregoryDick Gregory It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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