Transcendentalism Quotes

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

Dance, Strong, Powerful

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Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Decision, Fuel, Belief

Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Death

Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Love, Inspirational, Money

Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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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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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Motivational, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Speak Your Mind, Minorities

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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Children, Influence, Family Values

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Success, Music, Forgiveness

Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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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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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

Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Motivational, Love Life, Iron

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In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Carl Jung

Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

"Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational, Truth, Honesty

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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