Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

No man was ever great by imitation.

You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.