Gratitude
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
From “Friendship,” Essays (1841)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
All quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson →
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; if I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
The sage does not accumulate (for himself). The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.
For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; and Love, the human form divine; and Peace, the human dress.