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Quotes Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
"A good intention clothes itself with power."
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky;
Arrives the snow."
I didn't find my friends; the good God gave them to me.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go where
there is no path and leave a trail."
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without."
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth about half an inch a year is caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and nder every deep a lower deep opens.
"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.
"Be not the slave of your own past, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim fast, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. "
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes
nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss."
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
"Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate."
" I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of book; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence
which is another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."
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.
...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how,
in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,
from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
"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. Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do
without temperance."
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend" - Euripides (BC) "The only way to have a friend is to be one. . . A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the
horse-power of the understanding."
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
"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."
"Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man."
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
"Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories."
"Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
"...To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
"Live well,
Learn plenty,
Laugh often,
Love much."
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope."
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"Every man contemplates an angel in his future self."
"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!"
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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