Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postpone not your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson