{"quotes":[{"text":"As it often did when I thought about chicken wings and entropy, my mind turned to Emerson. 'Life is a journey, not a destination.' Now that was one stone-cold motherfucker who was not afraid to deliver the truth: After the torments of the journey, you have been well-prepared for the agonies of the destination.","author":"Colson Whitehead","tags":["destinations","entropy","journeys","ralph-waldo-emerson","travel"],"id":48366,"author_id":"Colson+Whitehead"},{"text":"Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.","author":"Brandi L. Bates","tags":["ambition","aristotle-c-theresa-ii","attitude","beverlee-bates","brandi-bates","brandi-bates","brandi-l-bates","hard-times","hustle","inspirational","life","motivation","ralph-waldo-emerson","struggle"],"id":67943,"author_id":"Brandi+L.+Bates"},{"text":"Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["anderbo","anderbo-com","art","beauty","behavior","books","culture","eloquence","emerson","father-must","gail-hochman","illusion","jonathan-galassi","power","ralph-waldo-emerson","rick-rofihe","rofihe","rrofihe","vilcek-literature-prize","wealth","whiting-award"],"id":187815,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["freedom","inspirational","ralph-waldo-emerson"],"id":243026,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable,' said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, 'Emerson.'Lake and Palmer?'Ralph and Waldo.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["civic-duty","funny","misattributed","neighborliness","ralph-waldo-emerson","snow"],"id":261076,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["poem","quote","ralph-waldo-emerson","trail"],"id":322110,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["calling","career","career-counseling","find-your-passion","fortune","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-life","job","job-search","life-coaching","life-purpose","passionate-living","purpose","purpose-in-life","pursue","pursue-your-passion","pursuit","pursuit-of-happiness","ralph-waldo-emerson","self-expression","work"],"id":377652,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.","author":"Paul Hawken","tags":["god","ralph-waldo-emerson","stars"],"id":415216,"author_id":"Paul+Hawken"},{"text":"I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["bronx","literature","nathaniel-hawthorne","ralph-waldo-emerson","reading","robert-mccrum","youth"],"id":475458,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}