Life quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
"This world we live in is but thickened light."
"Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."
"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
"Life is a festival only to the wise."
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
"What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"Life is a progress, and not a station."
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better."
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
"Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."