Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

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

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.