Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down, yet grasped at glory, Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole? 'Done things' just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story, Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul? Have you seen God in His splendours, heard the text that nature renders?( You'll never hear it in the family pew.) The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things— Then listen to the wild—it's calling you. Robert W. Service
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In this quote from Walt Whitman, he speaks of the power of the individual to face their demons and conquer them. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, he says, “I think that a lot of our demons are the same. We’ve been conquered by an idea of what we should be, what we should do, how we should look or what we should sound like. So many of us have been put into a box that we have no business being in.” He says, “In order for us to get out of that box, we have to say no to it.”

Source: The Spell Of The Yukon And Other Verses

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