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Slide 1: Happiness Quotes
Slide 2:  I love Walt Whitman. His words make my toes curl with happiness.  My daughter is reading English literature at University. Not in my wildest dreams could I have asked for such blessings in my life.
Slide 3:  My son is now taller than me. A few years ago I would steal his trainers if I had to nip outide for a few moments, now his feet are twice the size of mine.  He eats non stop. My children are such a source of incredible happiness. Gratitude is the foundation store upon which we build our temples.
Slide 4:  A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman  A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman
Slide 5:  After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman  All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman
Slide 6:  And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman  Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman  Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman
Slide 7:  Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. Walt Whitman
Slide 8:  Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman  Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Walt Whitman
Slide 9:  I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman  I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
Slide 10:  I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Walt Whitman
Slide 11:  If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman  Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman  Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman
Slide 12:  The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman  You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain freemargin, and even vagueness – ignorance, credulity – helps your enjoyment of these things. Walt Whitman
Slide 13:  Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”  Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road  Find out, how to be happy here:  http://carolfinlayson.com/