Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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. Self Reliance
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Emerson in His Journals
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
The First wealth is health.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Whatever you do, you need courage. 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.
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. The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
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.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. Essays: First Series
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. Self-Reliance and Other Essays
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
You become what you think about all day long.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Self-Reliance
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. Self-Reliance
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Self Reliance
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Love, and you shall be loved.
You are constantly invited to be what you are.
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
People only see what they are prepared to see. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.