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1 " Love, and you shall be loved. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 " He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. "
3 " The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. "
4 " It is not the length of life, but the depth. "
5 " Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
6 " Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up "
7 " Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. "
8 " Imitation is suicide. "
9 " What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. "
10 " Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. "
11 " Always do what you are afraid to do. "
12 " Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. "
13 " Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. "
14 " Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you. "
15 " Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "
16 " Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. "
17 " Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Emerson in His Journals
18 " You become what you think about all day long. "
19 " Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Self-Reliance
20 " Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Self-Reliance and Other Essays
