Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Interpretation
Embrace and engage with the world around you, experiencing both its joys and struggles.
In this quote, Emerson encourages individuals to actively participate in life by loving the world around them. He emphasizes the importance of engaging with both the happiness and challenges that come with being part of a community, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from connecting with others and recognizing the shared human experience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about community service, this quote can inspire action.
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?
Donβt you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.
People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power, more things, more gadgets. Tomorrow they will love - today there is no time. But tomorrow never comes, and one day they find themselves burdened with all kinds of gadgets, burdened with money. They have come to the top of the ladder - and there is nowhere to go except to jump in a lake.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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