I think some quotes are fun and I also want to create someplace on this website that's a break from the pink. It's also a great excuse to add my actual favorite color (green). I love green and also transcendentalism so there's a good amount of those guys' quotes here. I hope this reads like an english teachers whiteboard
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” - Henry David Thoreau
"Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The perception of beauty is a moral test."- Henry David Thoreau
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."- Henry David Thoreau
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."- Henry David Thoreau
"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."- Henry David Thoreau
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."- Raplh Waldo Emerson
"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria" - Friedrich Nietzche
"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town."- Henry David Thoreau
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so."- Henry David Thoreau
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Things do not change; we change.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” - Henry David Thoreau
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” - Henry David Thoreau
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." - Margaret Fuller
"As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you." - Morihei Ueshiba
"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. " - Morihei Ueshiba
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love." - Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Albert Camus
