Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Interpretation
Embrace your circumstances and the people in your life as part of a larger plan.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson encourages individuals to accept their current situation and the relationships they have with those around them. It suggests that we should trust in the divine guidance that has placed us where we are and acknowledge the significance of the events and people that shape our lives, viewing them as interconnected elements of our existence.
In practice
During a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, we should accept the place the divine providence has found for us.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.
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