Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Genius Borrows nobly.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Events tend to recur in cycles…

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.