Friends, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Advice, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Success·Failure, Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) a literary thinker and poet

Appearance, Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Nature and Selected Essays

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Love, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and you shall be loved.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)