RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

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

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

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

"Love, and you shall be loved."

"Every wall is a door."

"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide."

"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

"You are constantly invited to be what you are."

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God."

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

"Fear always springs from ignorance."

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."