"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety...begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
~ R. W. Emerson
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The 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 Emerson
"Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much...who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves."

~ R. W. Emerson
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it.Stamp it with your own personality...be enthusiastic and faithful...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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."

~ Emerson
"Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People are very inclined to set moral standards for others."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."

~ 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
"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?"

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

~ R. W. Emerson
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

~ R. W. Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

~ R. W. Emerson
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made … Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

~ R. W. Emerson
Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

~ R. W. Emerson
Only the great generalizations survive.

~ R. W. Emerson
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

~ R. W. Emerson
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.

~ R. W. Emerson
Money often costs too much.

~ R. W. Emerson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

R. W. Emerson
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself... The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

~ R. W. Emerson
Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

~ R. W. Emerson
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 eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. ~ Emerson
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