"Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night.Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
More by Walt Whitman
“Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.”
“In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.”
“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.”
More on Balance
“Give and Take...For to the bee a flower is a fountain if lifeAnd to the flower a bee is a messenger of loveAnd to both, bee and flower,the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.”
“Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.”
“I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.”
More on Duality
“One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.”
“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”