Emerson Quotes

Emerson Quote of the day

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

She pushed off her toes toward me, guiding my head down, and gently kissed my lips. No. This wouldn’t be goodbye. I’d fill her up and make her realize she’d always be empty witho

Noah?"A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom.

The moment Noah came up behind me and kissed the side of my neck, I was torn between leaning into him and skirting away. Every muscle in my body screamed to fall into him.

My body screams to stride over to her, wrap my arms around her waist, kiss her until she’s drunk on me and slowly remove every article of clothing on her body.

He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. I’m paralyzed. I swear he’s going to kiss me. I swear I’m going to let him.

He loved me.Noah Hutchins had told me he loved me, and that had made the past week at school absolute hell.

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance

You know a lot about math, " I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along the lines of "Hey, you have hair and it's red and curly." Real smooth.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.

I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.

Noah drew me closer to him. "It's okay. I've got you.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in

Tomorrow is a new day

Trust men and they will be true to you

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.

I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

Just a shower. If you want me to stay on the opposite side, I will. I won’t kiss. I won’t touch.”Echo flashes that siren smile. “What if I want to kiss you?”“You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you?

Breathing became a painful chore. Her lips turned down while her warm fingers caressed my cheek. That touch typically brought me to my knees, but now it cut me

The dull pray

The only reward of virtue is virtue

Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.

Truth is the summit of being

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.