Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is Gods handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”

“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive”

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”

“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.”

“Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.”

“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”

“A dream has power to poison sleep.”

“Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there, I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow.I am the diamond glint on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain.I am the gentle autumn rain.When you wake in the morning hush,I am the swift, uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circling flight.I am the soft starlight at night.Do not stand at my grave and weep.I am not there, I do not sleep.(Do not stand at my grave and cry.I am not there, I did not die!)”

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

“A star shone at the hour of our meeting.”

“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.”

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

“If you can do a thing once, you can do it twice. If you can do it twice, you can make a habit out of it”

“Insist on yourself; Never imitate... Every Great man is unique.”

“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”

“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”