All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAll I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe earth laughs in flowers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThere is creative reading as well as creative writing.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhat is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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 EMERSONNothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONSometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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 EMERSONGuard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMany eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONHappiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLet us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON