Ralph Waldo Emerson: Trending quotes

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

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

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

“The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.”

“Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

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

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”

“Life is to be lived, not controlled.”

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”