The years teach much which the days never knew.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till…
From
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (via
dani-dear)