"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Life More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." "God screens us evermore from premature ideas." "Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual." More In Life "I can’t cultivate a relationship with my child if it’s between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, ‘This is not going to work.’ It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year."― Katherine Heigl "There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."― Maya Angelou "Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."― Dave Barry