Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children is success."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"Our life is not so much threatened as our perception."

"He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

"All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronologies."

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

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."

"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."

"What is the hardest task in the world? To think."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"The mind has a much greater extent than the body."

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

"Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules, but after his own."

"The greatest delight is in breaking a vicious circle and getting out of a rut."

"I am always better for an hour with the woods."

"The beautiful thing is that beauty is objective. The beautiful is what speaks to the soul."

"Love will make a man do what he never thought possible."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

"There is no greater delight than giving."

"We boil at different degrees."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet."

"History repeats itself because nobody was paying attention the first time."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear."

"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

"There is no greater teacher than experience."

"The individual is the world."