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.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
