Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.