Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Interpretation
Appreciate your current situation as it could be worse.
This quote by Plutarch encourages individuals to cultivate a sense of contentment and acceptance regarding their circumstances. By recognizing that situations can always be less favorable, one can foster gratitude and relief for the present state of affairs, ultimately promoting a positive mindset for dealing with life's challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire college graduates.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it.
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
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