"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 "It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." "There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere." More In Life "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."― Charlotte Bronte "People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well."― Carl Lewis "The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."― Soren Kierkegaard