Creative Valor

Musings and other items of interest.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. … Every great man is … unique. … Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not go where the path may lead[;] go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[A] friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To laugh often and love much: To win respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics And endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give one's self; To leave the world a little better, Whether by a healthy child, A garden patch, Or redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm And sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier Because you have lived … This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. … But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau