Ralph Waldo Emerson on Change Quotes

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"Each moment has its own beauty; a picture which was never seen before and shall never be seen again."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and the certainties of day."

"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency."

"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."

"The growth of the intellect is strictly analogous in all its stages to the growth of the body."

"The power of nature is the power of the soul."

"New arts destroy the old. See the foam which the ship leaves short-lived on the sea."

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven."

"The things which are taught children are not the things that will be of most use to them."

"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day."

"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile."

"The mind is the only reality, of which men and all other natures are better or worse reflectors."

"All that is made of the angels is but the shadow of the soul."

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"Nature is not fixed but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it."

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."

"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified."

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

"A man is a god in ruins."

"The soul's emphasis is always right. You will find it in the silence."

"Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow, when we are building up our being."