Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Wake up, lift your head, open your eyes, and dream. Gaze softly into your heart’s whispers. Notice the pull of your belly and that which makes you come alive. Let your soul speak, beckoning you to embark on that one voyage you can no longer let lie.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.