Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Good Day Quotes

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Good Day Quotes

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Action Quotes

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Men Quotes

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Being Yourself Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Lines Quotes

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Suicide Quotes

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Home Quotes , Ideas Quotes

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Sight Quotes

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Eye Quotes

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Perfection Quotes , Action Quotes

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Imagination Quotes

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Humility Quotes , Men Quotes

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Pay Quotes

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , God Quotes , Running Quotes

It 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Graduation Quotes

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Positive Quotes , Nature Quotes

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sky Quotes , Giving Quotes

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Illumination Quotes