Quotations from
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.
There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.