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#1

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

tags: happiness

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“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

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dark, stars

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#4

“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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#5

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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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

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

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#8

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: courage, inspirational

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#9

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

tags: life

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#10

“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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#11

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

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#12

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

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#13

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace

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#14

“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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#15

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#16

“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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#17

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#18

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#19

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: faith, inspiration, life, sorrow, wisdom, worry

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#20

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: success

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#21

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
― Emerson

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#22

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#23

“Love, and you shall be loved.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: love

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#24

“Fear always springs
from ignorance.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: fear, ignorance

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#25

“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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#26

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson

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#27

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dreams, inspirational

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#28

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#29

“I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#30

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: information-age, information-overload, social-media

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