All diseases run into one, old age.
Interpretation
Old age is the ultimate condition that leads to all diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote highlights the inevitability of aging as the common denominator of all human afflictions. It suggests that as we grow older, we inevitably face a decline in health and vitality, which is universal to all individuals. Aging is portrayed not only as a natural process but also as the ultimate disease that encompasses the various ailments and struggles of life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of maintaining health as one ages.
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 challenge is always to find the good place to end the book. The rule I follow with myself is that every book should end where the next book would logically begin. I know that some readers wish that literally all of the threads would be neatly tied off and snipped, but life just doesn't work that way.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune
Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
Why are we so terrified of a natural process that allows for life to be brought into this world? Why do we scramble to hide our tampons when we pull them out of our purses?
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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