Self Reliance Transcendentalism Quotes & Sayings

You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen."
"I wasn't born with it."
"Where did you get it?"
'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to. — Margaret Millar

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny. — Hans Kung

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad. — Thomas Tusser

Balance. It's like a unicorn; we've heard about it, everyone talks about it and makes airbrushed T-shirts celebrating it, it seems super rad, but we haven't actually seen one. I'm beginning to think it isn't a thing. — Jen Hatmaker

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar. — Mencius

I'm going to bury myself so deep inside of you it'll leave you feeling hollow when I'm not with you. ~Vince — Vi Keeland

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are always different than what they might be ... If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James

Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn't see your worth at the moment you met then he won't two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be filled with his regrets and your life filled with thankfulness because of this revelation. — Shannon L. Alder