Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes
An American essayist, philosopher, and poet, Emerson was a leading figure in the transcendentalist movement, advocating for the inherent goodness of people and nature. He emphasized individualism, self-reliance, and the importance of spiritual intuition over formal religion. His essays and lectures challenged societal norms and encouraged individuals to trust their inner wisdom, promoting the idea that personal insight leads to higher consciousness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes
An American essayist, philosopher, and poet, Emerson was a leading figure in the transcendentalist movement, advocating for the inherent goodness of people and nature. He emphasized individualism, self-reliance, and the importance of spiritual intuition over formal religion. His essays and lectures challenged societal norms and encouraged individuals to trust their inner wisdom, promoting the idea that personal insight leads to higher consciousness.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
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.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past.
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.
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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.
