Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Love

• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Romance

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Harvard University Press

• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

• A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Men, Voice

  "Emerson's Works".

• Love, and you shall be loved.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.35, 谷月社

• Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Heaven, Rejection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Math, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

• Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Romantic, Girlfriend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

• Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Eternity, Young

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.388, Library of America

• All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romance

  Essays "Love" (1841)

• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Courage, Money

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

• Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Love You, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.81, Harvard University Press

• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

• Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.247, Courier Corporation

• In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Soul, Flight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.112, Coyote Canyon Press

• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

• Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Nature, Latin

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.161, Harvard University Press

• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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