Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each other, accidental, meaningless, a jumble, just a chance phenomenon. If you see the truth, everything falls into line, everything falls together in a harmony, everything starts having significance.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Life is nothing but an opportunity for love to blossom. If you are alive, the opportunity is there - even to the last breath. You may have missed your whole life: just the last breath, the last moment on the earth, if you can be love, you have not missed anything - because a single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Live as if you were eternal.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.