Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Our best history is still poetry.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

The only wealth is life.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

The hottest love has the coldest end.