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

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”

“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.”

“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”

“Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”

“Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.”

“You must train your intuition, you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

“An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.”