Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Interpretation
Let go of daily mistakes and approach each new day with a fresh perspective.
This quote emphasizes the importance of concluding each day by reflecting on what has happened, acknowledging both accomplishments and mistakes without lingering on them. Emerson encourages embracing a new day as an opportunity to start afresh, promoting a mindset that fosters resilience and optimism for the future.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage people to overcome their failures.
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 best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.
The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
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