It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person — 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”
Essayist and philosopher · 1803 – 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and philosopher who led the Transcendentalist movement, arguing for self-reliance, intuition and the spiritual presence in nature. His essays 'Nature' and 'Self-Reliance' shaped American thought, and he mentored both Thoreau and Whitman.
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