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 can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.
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