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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spi...
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And beca...
“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 ...
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
“The years teach much the days never know.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read an...
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; for...
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wr...
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,...
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties a...
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass...
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided...
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”
“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“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 ...
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with ...
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
“Fear always springsfrom ignorance.”
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do....
“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and...
“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern ...
“Be an opener of doors”
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the ...
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to ...
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many genera...
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to beli...
“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
“Beauty without expression is boring.”
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”
“I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in st...
“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
