"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~R. W. Emerson
"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you."~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
(American writer and scholar)
