Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as...

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

—James Thurber

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The most solid advice… for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

—William Saroyan

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Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

—Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

—Charles M. Schulz

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

—Samuel Johnson

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