Student Success Statement

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 We all have an inside and an outside. Everyone has an inside, but we can only see the outside, the physical. So when you have a statement like this, I believe it is trying to say that what is inside us, or within us, is more important than anything on the outside or around us. What lies within us is more powerful and stronger and smarter than what we think. What we feel and our thoughts and our feelings are nothing when compared to actions and actual doing. We can do and say things but what would really matter at the end is what we feel, what lies within us.