Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Rest in reason; move in passion.

Well, when it comes to social media – there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know? You would never do that. You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it. No. So why would you open yourself up to that?

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

The sun is but a morning star.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.