Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so ...

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Photo by Bri Schneiter

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Ákos Szabó

Photo by Ian Turnell

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Lisa from Pexels

Photo by Pixabay

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you sh...

Picture of Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

"
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beaut...

"
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

"
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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

"
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.

"
Beauty without expression tires.

"
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

"
Beauty without expression is boring.

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

"
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

"
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

"
Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...

"
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

"
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

"
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world....