"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.












You become what you think about all day long.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
"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 cr...
"The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
"She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
"To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.