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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Wall, Home

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Powerful, Caring

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Patience
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunset, New Day, Promise

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Fitness, Yoga
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.972, Library of America

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Judging, Belief

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong
Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Fear

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Success

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Giving, Energy

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Friend, Friendship, Positive
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Positive, Hope
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better Person, Persons

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Senior, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Accomplishment, Achievement
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Motivational, Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Strength, Success
"The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Successful, People

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Independent, Sacrifice, Men

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