Quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ If you are happy with the person you are becoming, and you can understand that the journey is long and the processes are slow; you are on the right track no matter what your current situation is. ”

- Joshua Lynott

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown