Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

Blame is safer than praise.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The eye is easily frightened.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

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?

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

Be an opener of doors.