Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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 you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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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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