There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Interpretation
Emotional wounds from past injuries can be hard to overcome.
This quote expresses the idea that emotional injuries or grievances from the past linger long after the initial harm has been done. It highlights the difficulty of moving on from pain, as unresolved feelings can haunt one's life, much like a ghost that cannot be laid to rest.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming past trauma.
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - donβt want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.
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