All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt WhitmanRead
There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes self-empowerment and the divine potential within each person.
Walt Whitman's quote suggests that individuals possess inherent divinity and greatness, encouraging self-reliance and personal responsibility. Rather than seeking external validation or authority, it invites one to recognize their own capabilities and worth, signifying that the true essence of divinity lies within oneself.
Themes
SelfDivinityEmpowermentGreatnessPersonal Responsibility
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance and potential.
More from Walt Whitman
All quotes βDid you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.
Walt WhitmanRead
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt WhitmanRead
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanRead
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,_x000D_ _x000D_ We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss._x000D_ _x000D_ Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;_x000D_ _x000D_ So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
Walt WhitmanRead
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt WhitmanRead
Similar quotes
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich BonhoefferRead
I think that if it is - has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens - all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerRead
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.
C. S. LewisRead
We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.
Pope FrancisRead
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.
Alexandre DumasRead
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard ShawRead