Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Inspirational Sayings

Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother.
~Author : Tommy Boy Nice Quotes

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
~Author : Guy Finley Great Sayings

The spirit is the true self.
~Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Meaningful Sayings

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
~Author : Joubert Wise Quotes

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we?d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
~Author : Ray Kurzweil The Age of Spiritual Machines When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Motivational Sayings

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
~Author : Elizabeth KublerRoss Famous Quotes

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'
~Author : James Russell Lowell Inspirational Sayings