We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the...
Personal growth is the only thing which is going to remain with you forever. Therefore, your basic goal in life should be continuously grow physically, mentally and spiritually irrespective of whatever circumstances might be.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the w...
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems
Song of Myself I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And wi...
A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard...
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
