To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—that is to have succeeded.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great person is always willing to be little.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson