The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Interpretation
In time, the benefits of hardship become clear to us.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the difficulties and challenges we face in life, often referred to as calamities, can lead to valuable insights or personal growth. However, it may take time for us to fully understand how these experiences have compensated us in ways that are not immediately obvious.
In practice
A motivational speaker discussing resilience during a seminar.
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?
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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