[Image] "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Submitted by Butterflies_Books t3_ys8jew on November 11, 2022 at 12:06 PM in GetMotivated 25 comments 1,755
screenlicker t1_ivznzoq wrote on November 11, 2022 at 8:23 PM Reply to comment by SirDonAffair in [Image] "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson by Butterflies_Books I did some research. I believe this is the original: https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2394 By Bessie Anderson Stanley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Anderson_Stanley Permalink Parent 7 mpwalters t1_iw006iw wrote on November 11, 2022 at 9:48 PM Here's more detail on how Stanley and Emerson appear to have merged in this poem: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/26/define-success/?amp=1 I've stopped trusting any quotes and aphorisms. :) Permalink Parent 5 Nykine t1_iw14qku wrote on November 12, 2022 at 3:16 AM never knew about this. Thanks for sharing! Permalink Parent 3
mpwalters t1_iw006iw wrote on November 11, 2022 at 9:48 PM Here's more detail on how Stanley and Emerson appear to have merged in this poem: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/26/define-success/?amp=1 I've stopped trusting any quotes and aphorisms. :) Permalink Parent 5
Nykine t1_iw14qku wrote on November 12, 2022 at 3:16 AM never knew about this. Thanks for sharing! Permalink Parent 3
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