"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Emerson

I will not live out of me

"I will not live out of me
I will not see with others' eyes
My good is good, my evil ill
I would be free."
Emerson

"life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it" Emerson