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#31

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: prayer

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#32

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: be-good, integrity

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#33

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: challenges, difficulty, inspirational, learning, science, value

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#34

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty, power

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#35

“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, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844

tags: life, risk-taking, timidity

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#36

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: character, humanity

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#37

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia

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#38

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays, First Series

tags: friends, friendship, trust

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#39

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — 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: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

tags: consistency, greatness, misunderstood

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#40

“You become what you think about all day long.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, obsession

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#41

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: integrity, self-actualization, self-determination

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#42

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: inspirational

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#43

“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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#44

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

8151 likes

#45

“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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#46

“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

2189 likes

#47

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: determination, fate

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#48

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

tags: nature, outdoors

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#49

“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

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#50

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every 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;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

tags: carpe-diem, hope, new-day, optimism

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#51

“We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.”
― Danielle Collobert, Murder

tags: despair, everyday, recognition, smallness

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#52

“I asked a man who took a death boat to Europe across the treachelous waters of the Mediterranean from Libya
"Why are you taking this death boat".
"I am already dead." He said. This is my coffin. If I succeed to get to the other side, I get a new life. If I fail, I loose nothing. I remain what I am now: Dead.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana

tags: despair, illegal-immigration

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#53

“In an upper room two women sat looking out at the rain. The younger held the hand of the elder; but in this room also there was silence. They were silent, for they had seen their old life crumble like a swallow's nest in the rain, and they had not yet seen the possibility of any new life rise before them. So they sat and looked at the rain, and it seemed that there was nothing for them to do but go forward forever and ever the rain beating about them, their feet deep down in a drift of dead leaves.”
― S.R. Crockett, The Stickit Minister

tags: despair

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#54

“I have a wish; one and only wish: to find the balance between the exhausting solitude, and the unbearable crowds. That, dear friend, is the answer we seek, and the answer that was sought by the people before us. <---> On another thought, it is for the best if we do not find the answer, for then we can suffer without a reason and we can blame God for such suffering, He who understands what we mean.”
― Kamal Korkees, Letters Of The Observer

tags: god, suffering

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#55

“I did not forget you; I cannot forget you. I thrusted my arm into my body, pulled my heart out, and consequently, squeezed it dry of its blood, for in this dark night, I am using it as ink to write about you.”
― Kamal Korkees, Letters Of The Observer

tags: despair, love, romance

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#56

“You know yourself better than anyone else ever will. Trust that. Your life, your choice.”
― Adam A. Fox, A Sinful Silence

tags: trust-yourself, your-choice, your-life

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#57

“For the ordinary individual: the thin line between sanity and insanity lies in thinking; such individual will deem you insane when he understands why you chose to think, and such individual will deem you even more insane when he understands what you chose to think about.”
― Kamal Korkees, Letters Of The Observer

tags: insanity, philosophy, thinking

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#58

“Since the human being forces himself to love the earth he lives on, and since the earth does not commit wrongdoings and atrocities like the human being does, he soon realizes that the earth is not deserving of love, nor the majority of the people that live on it, but rather a very small –and almost non-existing– percentage of its habitants are worthy of love. The catastrophe occurs when he loves and does not receive any love in return. That, to me, seems like the most beautiful way to kill oneself.”
― Kamal Korkees, Letters Of The Observer

tags: earth, love, world

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#59

“I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

tags: despair, guilt, hopelessness, suicide

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#60

“Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.”
― Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

tags: betrayal, despair, treachery

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