More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."