Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 2

• To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Morning, Happy Life

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• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Adversity

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• Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Speak, Loud

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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• The years in your life
  are less important
  than the life in your years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Important

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• Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Should, Feels

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• People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, People

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Pain, Stewardship

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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• A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Home

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Chance, Moments

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• Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Better Person, Persons

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  He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Family, Trust

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• To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
  Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Stars, Fear

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• The first wealth is health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Fitness, Yoga

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.972, Library of America

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