"Few and mean as my gifts may..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
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“In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead.”
“A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.”
More on Self Worth
“Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.”
“The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.”
“The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.”
More on Authenticity
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
“The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.”
“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”