Everyday Emerson Quotes

“I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom

“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom

“If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men’s, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom