Some of Somy's Favorite Quotes

A Quote from Aiden Nowlan:

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."

Favorite Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end."

"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."

"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."

"Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side."

" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "  

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."