Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feb 202014
Dec 032013
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38023-nothing-can-bring-you-peace-but-yourself-nothing-can-bring
Nov 282013
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8468-in-my-walks-every-man-i-meet-is-my-superior
Aug 212013
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/876-to-be-yourself-in-a-world-that-is-constantly-trying
Apr 242013
The years teach much which the days never know.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphwaldo100596.html
Feb 122013
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
– Bessie A. Stanley, prize winning essay published in the Emporia Gazette of Emporia, Kansas on December 11, 1905
Versions and derivatives of this essay have frequently been mis-attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/26/define-success/
Dec 222012
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.