God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  1. Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. - E.e. Cummings

  2. The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led. - Lisa Wingate

  3. It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. - Shauna Niequist

  4. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them. - Mhairi McFarlane

  5. I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! - Mark Twain

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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