{"id":141298,"date":"2019-09-02T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=141298"},"modified":"2019-08-23T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:45:01","slug":"the-meaning-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/09\/the-meaning-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

To laugh often and much;
\nto win the respect of the intelligent people
\nand the affection of children;
\nto earn the appreciation of honest critics
\nand endure the betrayal of false friends;
\nto appreciate beauty;
\nto find the best in others;
\nto leave the world a bit better
\nwhether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
\nor a redeemed social condition;
\nto know that one life has breathed easier
\nbecause you lived here.
\nThis is to have succeeded.
\n_________________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em> (25 May 1803 \u2013 27 Apr 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist<\/a> movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay “<\/em>Nature<\/a>“. Following this work, he gave a speech entitled “<\/em>The American Scholar<\/a>” in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America’s “intellectual Declaration of Independence.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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