The Beauty of Self Reliance

If you've never read Emerson's writings on Self Reliance, do yourself a favor and do so... they are very thought provoking.

And here is a very thought provoking post on the same topic.
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/03/18/self-reliance/

Here's to ingenuity and the American spirit of independence!
Long live self reliance!

Earth Laughs In Flowers

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
• Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
• Beauty is God's handwriting.
• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
• A man is what he thinks about all day long.
• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
• It is not the length of life that matters, but the depth of life.
• God enters by a private door into every individual.
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.
• Earth laughs in flowers.