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

“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.”

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

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

“Me too thy nobleness has taught”

“There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“I can't. You can't rewrite the past.”

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

““some men never”

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”