"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wasim) (via quote-book) (via johnnylegends)
Every day of my 8th grade year, we were required to stand as a class and recite this quote for my history teacher. Also, isn’t it supposed to be “encumbered with your old nonsense?”
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once, i had a conversation with a man outside the starbucks downstairs from my apartment and he endlessly quoted emerson throughout our brief exchange. it was such a memorable event and he was such a memorable man that i vowed to seek out this hero of his. he also gave me his copy of ‘love and will’ by rollo may that he had read and re-read since he was 19 years old. at the time of our talk he was in his sixties and dying of colon cancer. this is my favorite emerson quote so far.
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are nobel, I will love you ; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. it is alike your interest, and mine and all men’s , however long we have dwelt in lies, to live the truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
