"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don’t go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The thing done avails, and not what is said about it."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; appreciate beauty, find the best in others, leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded [in life]."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
