“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson [Source: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/play%5D
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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_newyears.html#rkM8Oy22TYzpki2T.99
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841 [Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/love/%5D
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson