He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant. He seems to take his task so minutely from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. — 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
