Quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Enmity builds walls; love builds bridges. Enlightenment is the highway to world peace. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. ”

- C. JoyBell C.