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?
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.
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