He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Interpretation
Facing and overcoming fears is essential for personal growth and understanding the essence of life.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of confronting our fears on a daily basis as a means to discover the true nature of existence. It suggests that learning to navigate fear is a critical component of living a fulfilling life, and that those who avoid fear are missing out on profound life lessons and personal development.
In practice
During a motivational speech, to inspire the audience to face their fears.
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?
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
And never resist a perfect moment.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
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