Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEvery artist was first an amateur.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo be great is to be misunderstood.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONOf all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe silly. Be honest. Be kind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe earth laughs in flowers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe are always getting ready to live but never living.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe 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 EMERSONFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAlways do what you are afraid to do.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON