Ralph Waldo Emerson

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.