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.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
The ancestor of every action is thought.
