Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The wise man in the storm prays not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

There is properly no history; only biography

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.