Was reading a book this morning that contained a wonderful quote by Mr. Emerson.
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no nourishing kernel of corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is that he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Which goes along with this quote from Elder Neil L. Andersen: "You don't know everything, but you know enough" - enough to keep the commandments and do what is right."
Working on it....
(And I just discovered chocolate on my keyboard! Wonder what that says about me other than that I'm a slob and a chocolate lover?)
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