Whimsically Didactic

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911) (via quote-book)

“Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.” Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.” Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.” Compensation, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)

“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. (via quote-book)

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via quote-book)

“Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ireadintothings) (via quote-book) (via lucifers-lil-angel)

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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