Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America is another name for opportunity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must be our own before we can be another’s."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America means opportunity, freedom, power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every artist was first an amateur."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are what their mothers made them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The April winds are magical / And thrill our tuneful frames / The garden-walks are passional / To bachelors and dames."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"May the work you do be a reflection of the passion inside you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; that is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A person is what he or she thinks about all day long."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self – trust is the first secret to success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imitation is suicide."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What potent blood hath modest May."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your destiny aligns with your choices."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is darkest, we can see the stars."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Sun illuminates only the eyes of the man but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-belief is the first secret to success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Throw a stone into the stream and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature is loved by what is best in us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before we are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our strength grows out of our weakness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write on your heart that every day is the best day."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the morning, a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good morning! The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth laughs in flowers ..."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Only Person You Are Destined To Become Is The Person You Decide To Be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world belongs to the energetic."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-command is the main discipline."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God is Unity, but always works in variety."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good system shortens the road to the goal."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Men are respectable only as they respect.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Autumn paints in colors that summer has never seen."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or her authentic self."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For each thorn, there's a rosebud...For each twilight — a dawn...For each trial — the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud — a rainbow...For each shadow — the sun...For each parting — sweet memories when sorrow is done."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Shallow men believe in luck; wise and strong men believe in cause and effect."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Rather let us have men whose manhood is only a continuation of their boyhood; natural characters still - such that are able and fertile for heroic action; and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I thank thee for the morning light, for rest and shelter of the night."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to deal with an uncooperative world is to become an uncooperative person."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""What lies behind us and what lies before we are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t be pushed by your problems, be lead by your dreams."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adopt the pace of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is — “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old." —Ralph Waldo Emerson"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Money often costs too much."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish every day and be done with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Let April’s light guide you toward a season of hope and fulfillment.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""The earth laughs in flowers.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dare to live the dreams you have dreamed for yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Beauty without expression is boring.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest achievement is to be able to be who you are in a world that is constantly trying to mold you into someone else."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beauty without expression is boring."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Treat yourself as you are, and you will remain as you are. Treat yourself as you could be, and you will become what you should be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ancestor of every action is… thought."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Change brings opportunities. You have to trust that new paths will emerge."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is darkest, men see the stars."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible for the guidance of suitors. The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see miraculous in the common."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Welcome, then, the stranger with a smiling face!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only true home is one you carry within you. Welcome home to your own soul."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"‘If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning . .. by corruption and groans. Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape. Behavior.’"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When summer opens, I see how fast it matures and fears it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Embrace the slowness, savor the sunshine, and fill your heart with the simple pleasures of the day. Happy Saturday!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is a happy talent to know how to play."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force…"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All diseases run into one, old age."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is an adventure, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The whole secret of the teacher’s force lies in the conviction that men are convertible."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You never know how you look through other people's eyes."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"December is a time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself… for that is all there is of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson