Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, and you shall be loved.

When 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.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Every wall is a door.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.