For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
“It is my duty to say to you that the need was never greater for new revelation than now…The doctrine of inspiration is lost. Miracles, prophecy, the holy life, exist as ancient history [only]. Men have come to speak of revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”
| The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your mind.”
“That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and our character. What we are worshipping we are becoming.”
“Character is higher than intellect.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. Happy is the house that shelters a friend. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”