"Go forth into the busy world and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Infancy conforms to nobody;all conform to it.”
“Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.”
“A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.”
More on Life
“It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.”
“Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.”
“Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.”
More on Engagement
“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.”
“The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.”
“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”