Journal 15 - Emerson and Thoreau Quotes
One of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quotes us “Dare
to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams
come true”. I really like this quote because of how powerful the words are,
they are speaking to everyone and saying that you should go for your dreams, do
not let life pass you by make your life worth living. This is very important in
today’s society because many people are not going for their dreams, they are
not trying to make their dreams come true, they are taking the tradition route
and attempting to do the best they can with the life they are living. They do
not like taking risk and that is what is involved when it comes to going for
your dreams. I agree that everyone should go for their dreams because if they
don’t then what is meaning in your life. I think that Emerson is trying to put
emphasis on his ideal of not conforming to other people and being the individual
that you are.
One of Henry David Thoreau’s famous quotes is “ it
takes two to speak the truth: one to speak and another one to hear”. This quote
is also very powerful because it literally speaks the truth about truth. I
really like this quotes because it tells how important the truth is , and how
it involved everyone it is not just a one person road. It means that in order to speak the truth you
truly have to believe it. You should not say something is the truth if you do
not truly believe it. This connects with this society mainly in high school, if
people truly believed this and followed this then there would be no such thing
as gossip. This belief would make this world a better place because people’s
reputations would not be tarnished if people stopped to think before they said
something and determined if they truly believe what they were going to spread
to another person. Thoreau’s quote would
change so many lives if people followed it.
One of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quotes us “Dare
to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams
come true”. I really like this quote because of how powerful the words are,
they are speaking to everyone and saying that you should go for your dreams, do
not let life pass you by make your life worth living. This is very important in
today’s society because many people are not going for their dreams, they are
not trying to make their dreams come true, they are taking the tradition route
and attempting to do the best they can with the life they are living. They do
not like taking risk and that is what is involved when it comes to going for
your dreams. I agree that everyone should go for their dreams because if they
don’t then what is meaning in your life. I think that Emerson is trying to put
emphasis on his ideal of not conforming to other people and being the individual
that you are.
One of Henry David Thoreau’s famous quotes is “ it
takes two to speak the truth: one to speak and another one to hear”. This quote
is also very powerful because it literally speaks the truth about truth. I
really like this quotes because it tells how important the truth is , and how
it involved everyone it is not just a one person road. It means that in order to speak the truth you
truly have to believe it. You should not say something is the truth if you do
not truly believe it. This connects with this society mainly in high school, if
people truly believed this and followed this then there would be no such thing
as gossip. This belief would make this world a better place because people’s
reputations would not be tarnished if people stopped to think before they said
something and determined if they truly believe what they were going to spread
to another person. Thoreau’s quote would
change so many lives if people followed it. 
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