Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Interpretation
A person's life goal serves as their source of strength and survival.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of having a significant purpose or dream in life. It suggests that pursuing one's passions and goals can provide the motivation and resilience needed to navigate life's challenges, much like a life preserver that keeps a person afloat in difficult waters.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams.
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?
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.
If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.
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