“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are small maters to what lies within us.”

“What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.”

“Granted that I know little of my real self, still, I am the best evidence for myself. And though, when I have quitted this world, it will matter nothing to me what people say of me, up to the moment of death we should strive to leave behind us something which can either Comfort, Amuse, Instruct, or Benefit the living; and though I cannot do either, execpt in a small degree, even that little should be given.”

“But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if hehasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.”

“If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.”