Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

That dog don’t hunt.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.