"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Twain, Mark | World | 3 bookmarks

"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Flowers | 7 bookmarks

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Fear | 6 bookmarks

"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Fear | 6 bookmarks

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Fear | 7 bookmarks

"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Facts | 2 bookmarks

"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Expectation | 3 bookmarks

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Exercise | 4 bookmarks

"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John | Hatred | 3 bookmarks

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Fortune | 2 bookmarks