The best Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet, who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

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For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

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Happiness Minutes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Nature & Environment Patience & Endurance

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs
The world uncertain comes and goes
The lover rooted stays

Freundschaft

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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Women Birthday Age Violins

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Character Self-Confidence

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature & Environment

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Mother Mother & Son

Earth laughs in flowers.

In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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No one has ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December? What are you excited about? "Oh, I love chapped lips and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans, how peachy."

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - December 2022

New England Patriots Boston

Welcome to Boston, where the weather is made up and the seasons don't matter.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Bill Bryson

Let's be honest: There's no better college town than Boston.

Everything about Boston is unique. It isn't one thing. Boston is its own deal.

You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Nature & Environment

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Nature & Environment

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Friendship Family

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

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The soldier's minute. In a battle that's all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before it nothing. Everything after, nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.

Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders - Season 1 Episode 6

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Baker Mayfield

Patience & Endurance

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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Do or do not. There is no try.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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Hey March, let's go out together in the next thirty days!

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If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.

2Pac

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Life Death Meaning

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12

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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Character Decisions

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Character Self-Confidence

A mother's love is the ultimate comfort.

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Mother Mother & Daughter

Mr. Fredricksen: "Hey, let's play a game. It's called: See Who Can Be Quiet the Longest."
Russell: "Cool, my mom loves that game."

Russell in Up

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Mother & Son Mouth

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

Emperor of China in Mulan

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

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Heart Heros Size

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