Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art is nature passed through the alembic of man."

"The only sin is limiting our understanding of who we truly are."

"Great minds are related to the same truth."

"There is a relation between man and nature, so that you cannot say one is made and one is given."

"The world belongs to the energetic."

"In solitude a man learns his own name."

"Every end is a beginning; to every conclusion a fresh start."

"The greatest awakening will occur when people begin to know themselves."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me."

"Every word has a shade of color to it like every ray of that spectrum."

"The creation of a single being is the creation of the universe."

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

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

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"Men are made, not born; circumstances do not determine destiny, choices do."

"There is always a good use for every quality and attribute."

"The mind regenerates itself eternally."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"All things are temporary in this world; therefore, appreciate them while they last."

"The fundamental truth is that all men are poets."

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility."

"To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven."

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

"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

"Society is always of a conspiracy against the manhood of its members."

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight."

"Conquer the world by intelligence, not by force."

"The creation of the world is the creation of ourselves."