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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil."
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."
"Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below."
"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start."
"Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways."
"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."
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