Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Nature hates calculators.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Blame is safer than praise.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds – not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but – a hatred of all injury.

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?

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

For so many people, TV and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them. It becomes important for the world to see different images of each other, so that we can develop empathy and understanding.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.