Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Whatever limits us we call Fate.