"Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

“He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.”

“The world belongs to the energetic.”

“But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?”

“But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.”

“People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them”

“Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

“The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.”

“How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.”