For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIn my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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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.
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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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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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