Showing posts with label Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show all posts

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Standing Up when None Join Us

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. Mohandas Gandhi

If no one responds to your call, walk alone, walk alone. Rabindranath Tagore

I may stand alone, but would not change my free thoughts for a throne. Lord Byron

The man that stands by himself, the universe stands by him also. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone, but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. Hubert H. Humphrey

At times we must stand alone by ourselves. Sometimes it is because the fight is ours alone. Other times, it is because our friends and neighbors do not recognize the need. In each instance, we are tested.

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Stenography dictation practice

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Seeing Ourselves, Others, and the World

If we live truly, we shall see truly. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We love to see through others, but we dislike being seen through. La Rochefoucauld

As a man is, so he sees. William Blake

We see things as we are, not as they are. Jennifer Stone

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

What is this world in which we live? Who are we? Who are our friends, lovers, family? Our perceptions tell us what are our world is, and therefore, who are what we are. Each of us lives in this world of ours, and yet each of us has a different perception of it.

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Stenography practice MP3s

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson