What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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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.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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