Life Quotes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”

“God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]”

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.”

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

“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”

“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”