The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night, and we watch television.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long. ” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it. . . " -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
He had gone to the higher Sierras. . . [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]
