Quote: Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Always do what you are afraid to do. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: The only way to have a friend is to be one. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Difficulties exist to be surmounted. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Life is a festival only to the wise. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Never read any book that is not a year old. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Quote: Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]