Life is to be lived, not controlled.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: rectitude
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if it all depended on this particular up or down.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEven in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: courage hope perseverance enjoy-life
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: happiness nature worship lessons
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