"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Life Tags: chief, event More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "All diseases run into one, old age." "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." "Science does not know its debt to imagination." More In Life "We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."― Gore Vidal "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"― Friedrich Nietzsche "Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."― Abdul Kalam