A day is a miniature eternity.
Interpretation
Every day encompasses the vastness and significance of life itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that each day we experience is not merely a fragment of time but a representation of eternity. This perspective invites us to appreciate the depth and richness of daily experiences, encouraging mindfulness and presence in life as we navigate through our routines and challenges.
In practice
An inspirational talk about living in the moment during a motivational 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?
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
A good cause need not be tarnished by its most fanatical expressions. But it is rarely helped by them.
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.
Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.
We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole
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