Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Interpretation
Gratitude and personal peace are essential for a fulfilled life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of nurturing gratitude and the practice of giving and forgiveness in order to achieve inner peace. Emerson suggests that true peace arises from within oneself, rather than from external sources, highlighting the significance of personal responsibility in our emotional well-being.
In practice
Use this quote during a gratitude workshop to inspire participants.
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?
Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'
If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.
Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.
There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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