Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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!

The city is recruited from the country.

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.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

I am the captain of my soul.

Love is only one of many passions.

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

A picture is a poem without words.

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.