Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

I was the same old me. Just like the Moon yesterday. But because of all the other factors that came to play, the darkness, the brightness, the blood red color. They all were a reflection, a projection due to the perfect set of circumstances. The Moon was still the Moon. But it was still labeled the Super Blue Blood Moon, Just so we can have some understanding, but, again I’ll state, the Moon was still just the Moon, just like I was still just me. Whatever you project on me, and I reflect back, doesn’t then make me become a new person, it’s just a reflection of your projection. I am still just me.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa….Leonardo had eye trouble….Art couldn’t explain it….But now we’re safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf…

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.