We are always getting ready to live but never living.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONGuard 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.
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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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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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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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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.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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