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?
Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
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