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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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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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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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