Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
The ancestor of every action is thought.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
