"My life is for itself and not..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.”
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.”
“Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.”
More on Authenticity
“I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.”
“Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.”
“Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.”
More on Life
“Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?”
“I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.”
“It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.”