Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONHappiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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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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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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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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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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