Quotes that I really like: R.W. Emerson

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

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“What you are comes to you”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...”

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

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

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”

“Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.”

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

“Every wall is a door.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”