Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Nature never breaks her own laws.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I Iook once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men. They tell me to be patient. They tell me I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become. Let the grasses grow over our scars, they say, and let flowers bloom over our wounds.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.