It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson