Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

age


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, without expression, tires

beauty


Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character

change


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

inspirational


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

dream


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

success


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

teamwork


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

bhagwad gita


Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

age


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

age


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

age


Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

anger


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

art


Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

art


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

art


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

art


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

beauty


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

beauty


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

best


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

best


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

best


Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

change


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

change


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

courage


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

courage


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

dreams


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

dreams


Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

faith


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

faith


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

faith


Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

fear


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

fear


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

fear


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

fitness


Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

friendship


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

friendship


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

friendship


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

friendship


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

friendship


Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

future


Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

gardening


Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

god


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

god


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

god


Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

god


Ralph Waldo Emerson

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

god


Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

god


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

good


Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

good


Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

good


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