Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
