Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Every artist was first an amateur.

You become what you think about all day long.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.