"Our health is our sound relation to external……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what…
— Henri Bergson
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature…
— Larry Bird
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way…
— Orson Scott Card
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain,…
— Kurt Cobain
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