Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 42. 

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The good news is that the moment you decide what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without." 

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 100.

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

Source: Daily Philosopher, Instagram, September 25, 2024.

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 25.

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2004, p. 24.

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great is ever accomplished without enthusiasm."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001. 

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it." 

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Sketchbook 23, 2014, p. 80. 

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 120

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 69

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 48

Quotes 154: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." 

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer

via Book of Commonplace 2005-2006, p. 182.

Quotes: Shadows

"Find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates." – Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese Author, In Praise of Shadows, 1933


"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." – Ralph Waldo Emerson,  American author

Quotes: Eliot + Emerson

"In order to arrive at what you do not know
    You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
    You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
    You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not."
-- T.S. Eliot, East Coker, part 3

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson