Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a great deal of respect for the power of words.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

I am a creature of habit, but I am also a creature of change.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Every artist was first an amateur.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

The sun shines today also.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The mass of men serve the State, not as men, but as machines, with their bodies.