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“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#4

“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.”
― Ted Hughes, The Tiger's Bones

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#5

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

tags: wisdom

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#6

“Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: bravery, ghost-children, tricky, tricky-situations, wise-words

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#7

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

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“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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#12

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#13

“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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#14

“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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#15

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

tags: life

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#16

“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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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#20

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

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#21

“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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#22

“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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#23

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity

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#24

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: encouragement, leadership

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#25

“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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#26

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: brave, inspirational

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#27

“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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#28

“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.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: leisure, solitude

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#29

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

tags: inspirational, obsession

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#30

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#31

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

tags: integrity, mind

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