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

“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”

“Imitation is suicide.”

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”

“Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.”

“Orang itu maunya serba cepat. Mi instan ini saja panjang, keriting, dan ribet. Sama seperti proses hidup kita. Pasti butuh waktu yang enggak sebentar, berkelok, dan enggak semuanya lurus, apalagi berjalan mulus. - Piring Bahagia Si dan Bi”

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands.”

“Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”

“The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.”