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 EMERSONWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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