It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrayer that craves a particular commodityโanything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
Ralph Waldo Emerson