Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson