The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. | |
― Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Some Doctors Are Better Than Others |
Lessons | |
2020 | A Liar As President Corrupts Us |
2019 | Is It Dark And Quiet For You? |
2018 | Undeniable Requirement |
2017 | Orange Corrosion |
2016 | Both Particle And Wave |
2015 | Deep In Debt |
2014 | The Difference |
2013 | My Heart Is Described |
2012 | Keen To Be Alone |
2011 | The Ideal Business… |
2010 | 55 |
Posts Tagged ‘Ralph Waldo Emerson’
What You Know
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success on March 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Understanding True Achievement
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Peace, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Understanding, Violence on March 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. | |
― Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Avoiding Corners |
Nobody Knows | |
A Novel War | |
2020 | First Buds |
To Fly | |
2019 | What If Nobody Believes Them Either |
2018 | It’s About Heart Not Skill |
2017 | Winning So Much I’m Already Tired Of It (Not) |
2016 | Punishing Red Binge |
2015 | Bits In The Soup |
2014 | More Beef, Less Bull |
2013 | Where Are Your Mountains |
2012 | Spherical Knowledge Of Hamsters |
2011 | Taking Stock Over Time |
Be Someone For Somebody
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Inspiration, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on March 19, 2022| 5 Comments »
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Genius (And Other Details) |
I Don’t Know Why | |
Going Into The Deep End | |
2020 | Repercussions For Health |
2019 | Chained To #45 |
2018 | Some Men Make Their Office As Small As Themselves |
2017 | Too Many |
2016 | Not Yet, Anyway |
2015 | On Pornography |
2014 | Nudge, Nudge |
2013 | The Journey Will Be Joy |
2012 | Hopeful Flights |
2011 | Irrationally Predictable |
Lawful Restraint | |
An Experiment Without A Control Group
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Actions, Control Groups, Life, Non-Scientific Experiments, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Timidity on January 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Seeking Center |
Your Love Is Near | |
2020 | You Mean I’m STILL In School? |
2019 | Finishing Work |
2018 | Diversity |
2017 | Timely Planning |
2016 | Just Too Easy To Know Fewer And Fewer |
2015 | A Fine Balance |
2014 | Next Rung |
2013 | Super Bowl Prep |
Romantics | |
A Goal For Zen? | |
2012 | Mutant Powers Of Obsession |
2011 | Federal Stars |
Mud Pie | |
Being Constantly Great
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Accomplishment, Being Yourself, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on December 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Sapping Joy |
Blew Out My Flip-Flop | |
Really Wheelie | |
2019 | Word Up |
2018 | But Much Is Worth Learning |
2017 | Mr. President, About Global Warming |
2016 | Starting To Stumble |
2015 | Begin Combat |
I Am A Runner | |
2014 | Just Dig ‘N It, Why? |
2013 | Additions |
The Object Of Instruction | |
2012 | Telling Her |
2011 | On Torture |
Bring In Peace
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Inner Peace, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Dalai Lama on December 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. | |
— The Dalai Lama | |
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | And The Past Is Much Better Than It Used To Be Too |
A Winter’s Day | |
2019 | I Just Remember It As Fun |
#45: IMPEACHED!!! | |
2018 | Prediction: Morning Is Coming After A Long Night Of #LyingDonald |
2017 | While Congress Slept |
2016 | And A Fellow Who Insists On Telling Us He’s Smart? |
2015 | Curves Ahead |
2014 | Sitting? |
2013 | Misperceptions |
2012 | Essential Experience |
2011 | Lest We Forget Those Still In Harm’s Way |
Sound Familiar? | |
Misunderestimated
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Copernicus, Galileo, Greatness, Jesus, Luther, Misunderstanding, Newton, Philosophy, Pythagoras, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Socrates on November 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. | |
― Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Doctor’s Orders |
Make That Seven Orders… | |
2019 | Innocent |
2018 | Ripost |
2017 | Just Asking… |
2016 | And 4 |
How Tall Do You Stand? | |
2015 | More Prejudice |
2014 | Say What? |
2013 | Daring Errors |
2012 | Are You Comfortable? |
I Just Have To | |
In Flux | |
2011 | True New |
2010 | A Job Well Started Is A Job Half Done |
I See With My One Good Eye | |
Every Today
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Day, Heart, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Write, Year on November 14, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. | |
― Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Walking |
Another Night’s Dread | |
2019 | Nowadays It Is Called Trumpism |
2018 | A Reluctant Joiner |
#IncompetentDonald: On The Road To Ruin | |
2017 | He Says, It Says |
2016 | Marriage Advice |
2015 | To James (and ‘Tasha) |
2014 | Ssshhush, You Are Not Alone |
2013 | So I Chose Living… |
2012 | For However Short A Time… |
2011 | Take A Deep Breath And Continue (Or Not) |
2010 | Tootsie-Roll Day |
Climate Change Deniers
Posted in Environment, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Climate Change, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on September 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Nothing New Here |
Talk To Me | |
Register And Vote | |
2019 | Love And Leave |
2018 | Smiling If Not Laughing |
2017 | Chilled And Smooth |
2016 | But Sometimes You Have To Stand In Front |
2015 | The Key Shift |
2014 | Remember ISIS / ISIL? |
2013 | What Have You Done Lately? |
2012 | B8 |
2011 | I’m Definitely Not In Control |
Truthfully
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged 6 January 2021, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Republican Traitors on July 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »
People only see what they are prepared to see. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
[Why Republican politicians think the 6 January 2021 insurrection at the Capitol was a love-fest: because it was Republican traitors trying to overthrow the government of the United States. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Demonstrably Proven To Yield No Benefits |
But When You Must, Stand | |
2019 | Paint-By-Numbers |
2018 | #45: Still Trying To |
Oh, Well… | |
2017 | Two Views Of The Starting Line |
2016 | Never Had It, Never Will (Donald Trump) |
2015 | 20/20 |
2014 | All Of My Best Ideas Come While Walking… |
2013 | Learn To Learn |
2012 | I Remind You |
2011 | Respect And Prestige |
2010 | Living Legends (Willie Nelson) and the Gettysburg Address |
No Profit Without Risk
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Chance, Chaos, Experiments, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on July 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | He’s Forgotten About Drugs And Rock ‘N Roll |
2019 | I Still Walk Daily |
A Windy Monday | |
2018 | No Religious Test, Yes Religious Ban |
2017 | Looking At #DumbDonald |
2016 | No Great Thing |
2015 | Happy Memory |
Of Two Minds | |
2014 | Sums |
2013 | Memories & Binging |
Admiration Due | |
2012 | Choices Matter |
2011 | Acceptance Is The Key |
2010 | Just A Permanent Crease… |
Bodily Functions | |
I Hope She Keeps Laughing
Posted in Environment, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Earth, Ecology, Flowers, Laughter, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on December 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The earth laughs in flowers. | |
― Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Ruff Clean |
2018 | Sounds Like A Blog To Me |
2017 | My Fear For America |
2016 | Proceeding Still |
2015 | Seeing Rainbows |
I Am A Runner | |
2014 | The Law Of The Perversity Of Nature |
2013 | One Standard Deviation |
2012 | High Anxiety |
2011 | And I’m Taking Me There |
2010 | 1,000 |
Even Being President For Almost Four Years
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Character, Circumstance, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on November 9, 2020| 2 Comments »
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | And Autumnal Foliage |
2018 | Up Hill, Both Ways |
2017 | Trump Carnivores – The Revolution So Far |
2016 | Election Results |
2015 | Speak Louder |
2014 | Why I Frequently Give In |
2013 | Am Remembering |
2012 | Sustained Fear |
2011 | Commitment |
Does Anyone Else Look Forward To The Last Lawn Mowing ‘Til Spring?
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Chores, House Ownership, Humor, Lawn Mowing, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on November 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | 10,000 Tries |
2018 | Keep America Great – Vote This Tuesday |
2017 | Old Style Ear Candy |
2016 | Next Tuesday |
2015 | Wanna Trade? |
2014 | Brothers And Friends |
2013 | So Suddenly |
2012 | At The Center |
2011 | Live Long And Thinner |
Got Health? | |
2010 | SF Giants – 2010 World Series Champions!!! |
52 – 54 – 56 – 58 | |
2009 | Diet Update |
Pictures from Chicago Trip… | |
I’m An Optimist
Posted in General Comments, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Character, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on May 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
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