Below are the best resources we could find featuring ralph waldo emerson about finding meaning.
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This video, building on the ideas of Ernest Becker, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Emerson, examines why we are so susceptible to conformity and looks at why nonconformity, or the cultivation of one’s uniqueness, is such an important ingredient in a life well-lived.
"What do our ancestral scholars, whom we consider the wisest and most spiritually advanced, have to say to us today?" asks Dyer. The answer lies in this collection of writings, poems, and sayings by some of the greatest thinkers of the past twenty-five centuries.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a...
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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