Don't you just love a great quote?

stillin

I googled it, Oubliette. The person who posted it here didn't give a source.
Village Idiot

I worry that no matter how cynical you become,

it’s never enough to keep up.

Jane Wagner
talesin

And Walt Whitman, a student/contemporary of the great RWE ,,,,,,,

“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."
stillin

Village, good one.
"inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist."
George Carlin

IS it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done;
To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes; Matthew Arnold I love the whole poem but this stanza especially. Living a human life is a triumph, whatever we do with it.........

Finkelstein
talesin

And one of his students, Walt Whitman, said this, and it is imprinted on my soul. From "Leaves of Grass":
“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."