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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his allotted 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 is 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 then is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; 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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love this quote.  I believe He led me to find it the other night...tucked away in a book I haven't picked up for years and years, in one of the very last chapters. Comfort.  
He knows me and loves me.

Grateful.