I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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 can bring you peace but yourself.
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Every wall is a door.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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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.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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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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