Matt

“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.”
― Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Seeks Mute Women