Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

You become what you think about all day long.

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

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.