“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.”
“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
“The First wealth is health.”
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”