Ralph Waldo Emerson Yourself Quotations

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.