I love these quotes.... so inspiring.
Thought I'd share. They are all by Ralf Waldo Emerson.
If I could meet someone from the past.... he would most definitley be someone I would condsider.
It amazing someone who was born May 25, 1803 and died April 27, 1882.------ thought up such profound truths that they still have meaning and bring inspiration for me over a hundred years later to read!
Enjoy.
- Make the best of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
· 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.
· Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
· Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
· Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far so you shall come back with self respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
· All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
· Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
· No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
· Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
· Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
· Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
· The key to every man is his though. Stury and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
· The measure of a mast is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
· The only gift is a portion of thyself.
· The only was to have a friend is to be one.
· The ornamnent of a house is the friends who frequent it.
· The world belongs to the energetic.
· There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
· This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
· Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
· Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
· Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies.
· We all boil at different degrees.
· What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
· When you strike a king, you must kill him.
· Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affiable demeanour; honorable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man…. Such a man is a true gentlemen.”
· In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
· People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
· Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
· That which we persist in doing becomes easier, no that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
· What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
· The ancestor of every action is a thought.
· The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
· He who is in love is wise and becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, frawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
· The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
· 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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
· Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
· Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
· Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far so you shall come back with self respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
· All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
· Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
· No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
· Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
· Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
· Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
· The key to every man is his though. Stury and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
· The measure of a mast is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
· The only gift is a portion of thyself.
· The only was to have a friend is to be one.
· The ornamnent of a house is the friends who frequent it.
· The world belongs to the energetic.
· There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
· This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
· Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
· Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
· Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies.
· We all boil at different degrees.
· What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
· When you strike a king, you must kill him.
· Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affiable demeanour; honorable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man…. Such a man is a true gentlemen.”
· In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
· People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
· Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
· That which we persist in doing becomes easier, no that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
· What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
· The ancestor of every action is a thought.
· The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
· He who is in love is wise and becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, frawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
· The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
· 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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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Those are great quotes. You are so cute for blogging cute stuff :)
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