Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful,
to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some
difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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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.
You shall begin it well and serenely... ”
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“Once you make a decision, the universe
conspires to make it happen.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make
you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“What you are comes to you.”
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“Unless you try to do something beyond what you
have already mastered, you will never grow.”
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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“We must be our own before we can be another's.”
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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of
the world is also a confession of character.”
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“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.”
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“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand
years how man would marvel and stare.”
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“Every wall is a door.”
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better
place... to know even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds
have no time for worries.”
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“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”
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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best
tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
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"A friend may well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature."
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you
can afford to be stupid with them.”
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“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
