Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.