Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Our best history is still poetry.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

That man is idle who can do something better.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.