For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Interpretation
Be prepared for life's challenges and respond appropriately to different situations.
This quote emphasizes the importance of readiness and adaptability in life. It conveys that one should be prepared for whatever comes their way, whether facing challenges (being the anvil) or taking action (being the hammer), thus balancing acceptance and assertiveness.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire students during a graduation speech about the importance of being prepared for the future.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
I donβt think I will get married,β Polly said as she stood up. βIβm going to train to be a hero instead.
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool β it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.