"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." ~ #RalphWaldoEmerson

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It’s not ornaments or design. Emerson knew that friends make a home shine.
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Friends Make a Home: Emerson’s Lesson on True Friendship

Friends make a home by bringing warmth and joy. Emerson’s quote shows the true value of friends in turning a house into a home.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ #RalphWaldoEmerson #quotes #friends
"I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road without being questioned about their motives." ~ #RalphWaldoEmerson
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s #opinion; it is easy in #solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” - #RalphWaldoEmerson

Leave a trail

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

The blast of a trumpet

Make your own bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine

Success

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children […] to leave the world a bit better […] to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine
The great American #transcendentalist essayist & poet #RalphWaldoEmerson was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1803. An early influence on me, Emerson was an #abolitionist and a true believer in human potential. He also influenced #FriedrichNietzsche, who considered him a 'twin soul'.