Carissa's quotes

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,720 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,317 people liked it

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
2,207 people liked it

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
1,571 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: failure, inspirational, success
225 people liked it

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
127 people liked it

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: kindness
107 people liked it

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
55 people liked it

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
72 people liked it

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: gratitude
56 people liked it

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

tags: manners
15 people liked it

"The world belongs to the energetic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 people liked it

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: education
11 people liked it

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 people liked it

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
2,900 people liked it

"The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

6 people liked it

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

10 people liked it

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty, grace
8 people liked it

"You become what you think about all day long."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
14 people liked it

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: children
9 people liked it

"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
4 people liked it

"We boil at different degrees."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

6 people liked it

"Be good to your work, your word, and your friend."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: integrity
8 people liked it

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3 people liked it

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
1,058 people liked it

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

3 people liked it

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
145 people liked it

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: reflects, society, this, today-s, unperfect, upon
2 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,421 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,832 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,996 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,342 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,090 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,946 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,591 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,656 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,496 people liked it

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
157 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,974 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,858 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,696 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,498 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,870 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,620 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,332 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,241 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,906 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
2,866 people liked it