There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Interpretation
Memorable experiences stem from moments of creative inspiration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the most significant and unforgettable moments in our lives are often those that resonate deeply with our imagination. These experiences, full of creativity and inspiration, leave a lasting impact and evoke strong emotions, making them stand out among the many ordinary days we encounter.
In practice
In a speech about creativity, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson pointed out, there are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.'
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?
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.
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