Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe 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.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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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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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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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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