This is what you shall do: love the earth sun and animals, despite riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hate to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season or every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh should be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but it the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and every motion and joint of your body.
-Walt Whitman