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

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

The greatest man in history was the poorest

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic...

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic...

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

We change, whether we like it or not

We change, whether we like it or not

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well...

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well...

Language is the archives of history

Language is the archives of history

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds...

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds...

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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,...

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a...

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair,...

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair,...

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become...

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what...

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid...

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid...