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?
Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.
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