Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.”

“The highest revelation is that God is in every man”

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

“The future is purchased by the present”

“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.”

“Every wall is a door.”

“Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.”

“Its love when all you want is that person to be happy, doesnt matter if youre not part of that hapiness.”

“If you want the rainbow, you must first go through the rain...”

“...You will know that there is nothing that can rock you, nothing that can put you off balance, because you have the balance inside yourself...”

“Happiness is a state of mind; happiness means calmness of mind...”

“Imagine what you can be...And be it !”

“The fundaments of a person are not in substance, but in spirits.”

“Be creative, use your imagination. Theres always another way to get where youre going.”

“Id like to run away from you, but if you didnt come and find me, I would die...”

“We all have our personal truth,and we live that truth...”

“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day”

“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”