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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Profession: Poet
Nationality: American


When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your.. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive, — a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.