Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another page dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, I found this page of quotes & I was totally inspired! Enjoy

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

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

“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”

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

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”

“We change, whether we like it or not”

“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.”

“The first wealth is health.”

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

“This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it.”

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again”

“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”

This last one isn't Emerson but I still liked it:

"If you have zest & enthusiasm you attract zest & enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."