Transcendentalism

1. “ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” -Henry David Thoreau

2. “ Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. "I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.” -Margaret Fuller

4. “ As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “ Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.” -Margaret Fuller

6. “ Male an d female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. Bu t in fact they are perpetually pas sing into one another. Fluid hard ens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. Th ere is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

7. “ Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”

8. “ Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

9. All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen

10. “ With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”