Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Live, let live, and help live

Wherever there is power there is age.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.

To choose time is to save time.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.