"You take a weakness and start making it……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise"
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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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Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because…
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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
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God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points…
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Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it,…
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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give…
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I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
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If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it…
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In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We…
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You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself…
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I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I…
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Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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