Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

A leader can't move a country that's not ready. You can't make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.

Life is like dancing...changing all the time.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.

Everything changes but change itself.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.