More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"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."