To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived-that is to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson