More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."