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.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.
When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
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.
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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.
Eyes...They speak all languages.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Be not the slave of your own past.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
