We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes, Live For The Moment Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who...

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who...

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is...

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is...

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is always willing to be little.

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

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

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of...

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of...

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to...

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite,...

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite,...

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures,...

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures,...