Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding
Interpretation
Being mindful of your choices can prevent overwhelming situations.
This quote emphasizes the importance of exercising self-control and moderation in one's actions. It suggests that if one fails to manage their desires or impulses, they may find themselves in chaotic or congested circumstances, leading to negative consequences.
In practice
During a leadership seminar, to emphasize the importance of self-management.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
What people donβt realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.
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