Category: Emerson

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the length of life, but the depth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

he earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson