The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again - Ralph Waldo Emerson sad condolences children In the woods we return to reason and faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson garden nature tree Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness inspirational men Desire is possibility seeking expression. Ralph Waldo Emerson possibility expression desire Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson eternity young love All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson taste men art Each moment of the year has its own beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature-beauty moments years Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson dream happiness life I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson church-service silence inspirational Books are for nothing but to inspire Ralph Waldo Emerson inspiration inspire book The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson redemption soul world Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraging nature power The never-ending task of self improvement. Ralph Waldo Emerson self success life Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson congratulations risk success Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. Ralph Waldo Emerson inspirational hands people Be not the slave of your own past. Ralph Waldo Emerson plunge slave past People say law but they mean wealth. Ralph Waldo Emerson law mean people The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets. Ralph Waldo Emerson luxury greatness perception All science is transcendental or else passes away. Ralph Waldo Emerson transcendental passing-away We boil at different degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson being-different anger inspirational