We are always getting ready to live but never living.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe are always getting ready to live but never living.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEnthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThere is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONI cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThat 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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEnvy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAll I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFear always springs from ignorance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe 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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeople only see what they are prepared to see.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is not the length of life, but the depth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON