Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

For we put the power in the people.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do and thinks it still matters.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

I was the same old me. Just like the Moon yesterday. But because of all the other factors that came to play, the darkness, the brightness, the blood red color. They all were a reflection, a projection due to the perfect set of circumstances. The Moon was still the Moon. But it was still labeled the Super Blue Blood Moon, Just so we can have some understanding, but, again I’ll state, the Moon was still just the Moon, just like I was still just me. Whatever you project on me, and I reflect back, doesn’t then make me become a new person, it’s just a reflection of your projection. I am still just me.

I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.