36 Quotes by Max Ehrmann

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path...

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do – Writing.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time’s olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening’s twilight find me gentle still.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page.

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times...

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift – a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.