"If we shall take the good we..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past”

“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”

“It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.”

“Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.”

“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”

“He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.”

“But we must not suffer over the suffering.”

“My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.”

“I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”