Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  • Dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson
                                    

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

-It is not length of life, but the depth of life.

-Always do what you are afraid to do.

"To 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 blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— 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

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

— 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 (Self Reliance)

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a journey, not a destination." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every artist was first an amateur." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The years teach much the days never know." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Every wall is a door." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature and books belong to all who see them." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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