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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Optimism

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimistic, Optimism, Anxiety

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism, Choices, Speak
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blow, Optimism, Shadow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism, Soul, Limits
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.147, Penguin

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Future, Past, Optimism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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