Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

"The mind, once stretched by a new experience, never returns to its original dimensions."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."

"Trust thyself."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision that you can do something, you can do it."

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

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

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns."

"The creation of a single new human being is so great an undertaking that it has almost always commanded and engaged the highest religious almost everywhere."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Knowledge is power."

"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

"Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue."

"All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Finish each day and be done with it."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."