That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
RE Ralph Waldo EmersonEssayist & poet · 1803–1882What this quote means
An invitation to treat each ordinary day as the year’s best. Emerson suggests that gratitude, written on the heart, can make any day shine.
Context
American essayist and leader of Transcendentalism, championing self-reliance and the quiet authority of the individual.
This line is among the quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson that readers return to on gratitude — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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