Every natural action is graceful.
Interpretation
Natural actions are inherently beautiful and flowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that when individuals act in accordance with their true nature, their movements and behaviors possess an innate elegance and grace. This observation reflects a broader philosophical idea that authenticity leads to beauty, encouraging people to embrace their natural instincts and express themselves freely.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a yoga class to emphasize the beauty of natural movements.
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?
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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