A little more Emerson!

I can't help myself, everything he has to say is brilliant! I must share it!

-To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to leave the world a better place; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...This is to have succeeded.

- Today represents another opportunity on the walk to greatness

-Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, yet again.

Oh, This is why I love him- what an incredible mind!
Whoso would ever be a man, must be a nonconformist

-To believe in your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men- that is genius.

-Nature arms each man with some faculty that enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

-Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

-In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

-The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

-Nothing great was every achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the great transcendentalist writers. His writings have unquestionably had a huge influence on my life, and I think it is fair to say that I lead my life by most of what is written in his essay, “Self Reliance”. I admire his ability to put into words what usually is indescribable, and think his wisdom is both empowering and inspirational. Here is the quote from the middle of my dreamboard, which I feel summarizes my own life philosophy:

“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. That he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson