It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt 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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWithout ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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 EMERSONLet us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONOur chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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 EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONDo the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONA great man is always willing to be little.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhen it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON