More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."