When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Interpretation
The quote expresses gratitude for life and appreciation for the beauty of the world each morning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects a deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for life itself. Each day brings a new opportunity to witness the beauty of nature and the world around us, prompting a feeling of thankfulness for being alive and able to experience it. This perspective encourages mindfulness and encourages individuals to start their day with positivity and appreciation.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a morning meditation session.
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?
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.
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