Ralph Waldo Emerson Optimism Quotations

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.