Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real action is in silent moments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson