Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: transcendentalism-god
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf trust is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: self-trust
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: purpose helping-others make-a-difference purpose-of-life
For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHappiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: happiness
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: love faith mystery harmony
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