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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#reading #we-are-what-we-eat #we-are-what-we-read #you-are-what-you-eat #you-are-what-you-read

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#dreams

It is not the length of life, but the depth.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#self-determination #person

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#make-a-difference #purpose #purpose-of-life #life

The earth laughs in flowers.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#laughter #laugh

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#best #day #every #every day #heart

Life is a journey, not a destination.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#fate #universe

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational






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Emerson. Emancipation is the demand of civilization". I wish to learn this language not that I may know a new grammar but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue.

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His essays remain among the linchpins of American thinking[citation needed] and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers writers and poets that have followed him. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of publiRalph Waldo Emersond essays and more than 1500 public lectures across the United States. Together with Nature these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

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