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.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
