Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
Bernard BaruchRead
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Interpretation
Living well involves embracing and adapting to challenges rather than trying to avoid them.
This quote by Bernard Baruch suggests that the true essence of life is not about being free from difficulties but rather about learning and evolving through them. It highlights the importance of resilience and personal growth in the face of adversity, encouraging individuals to confront their troubles with a mindset geared toward development and improvement.
In practice
During a motivational talk about overcoming challenges in life.
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
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