Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist philosopher and critic of religion, was a popular lecturer in his day. Many have quoted him from his essays, journals, and speeches.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
We become what we think about all day long.
Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
The First wealth is health.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Is not prayer a study of truth? No one ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Beauty without expression is boring.
