It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.
Interpretation
Patience and optimism can alleviate stress and negativity during difficult times.
This quote emphasizes the importance of patience and the understanding that life is filled with ups and downs, much like waiting for a train. It conveys the message that even when we face setbacks or disappointments, there will always be new opportunities and paths that come our way, encouraging us to maintain a positive outlook.
In practice
During a motivational speech about facing life's challenges.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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