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#1

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

#2

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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, regrets

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#3

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#4

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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#5

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#6

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#7

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

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#8

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spirituality

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#9

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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#10

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life

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#11

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: destiny, self-determination

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#12

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

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder

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#13

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: nature, outdoors

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#14

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#15

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, intelligence, wisdom

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#16

“Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-improvement

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#17

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#18

“In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.”
― Guy Claxton, What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education

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