Favorite quotes

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Insist upon yourself. Be original."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

People only see what they are prepared to see."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Fear always springs
from ignorance."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson