"A man makes inferiors his superiors by..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."”
“After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.”
“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”
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“The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."”
“Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.”
“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!”
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“Be at Peace with Everyone - No one is capable of making you upset without your consent, so if you begin practicing the intention to be authentic and peaceful with everyone, you connect to peace itself- and gain the power to change the energy of your relationships with family and friends.”
“He is truly great in who hath power over himself.”
“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”