Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson