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Living Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
- The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
- He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,…
- The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
- Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
- We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It…
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
- We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of…
- We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The…
- Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
- Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite…
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and…
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon…
- The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
- The prehuman creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind.... Humanization was not a…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov