SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024 - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024 - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Some of my favorite quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.:

I’ve used this quote for years.  I tend to be very enthusiastic.  

Related to that is the word “Elan” (a word that I’m not sure I’ve ever heard)

“enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

He who is not conquering some fear every day has not learned the secret of life.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The first wealth is health.

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LOVE WINS

ENTHUSIASM WINS

FINDING BEAUTY WINS

LOVE TRANSFORMS US

Karen Anne White, ©, January 27 2024