Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

I have spent seventy years finding out that I am not God.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

Truth is within ourselves.

The secret of secrets is inside me again.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.