Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Interpretation
Amidst life's struggles and challenges, there is always a glimmer of hope or beauty.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects the idea that even in the darkest and most unpleasant situations, there is an underlying sense of positivity and beauty that can be found. It suggests that life, with all its difficulties, contains moments of joy and inspiration that can uplift the human spirit, reminding us to look beyond the surface of hardships to discover the 'song' of life that resonates within us all.
In practice
In a speech about perseverance during tough times.
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?
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind
One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
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