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 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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe good to your work, your word, and your friend.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is not the length of life, but the depth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFew people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhat you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFear always springs from ignorance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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 EMERSONTo be great is to be misunderstood.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONOur chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeople do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAll I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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