Ralph Waldo Emerson Moments Quotations

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.