When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIn my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONYou are constantly invited to be what you are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeople do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThere is creative reading as well as creative writing.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe good to your work, your word, and your friend.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeople only see what they are prepared to see.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONShallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNothing can bring you peace but yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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 EMERSONSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLet me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON