Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Interpretation
Health reflects our level of wisdom and is associated with a joyful and noble spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that true health goes beyond mere physical well-being; it embodies wisdom and a cheerful disposition. A person in good health exhibits an open, noble attitude that signifies their understanding of life and its complexities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wellness seminar to emphasize the connection between mental and physical health.
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?
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
It's fine to seek professional help, but I urge everyone - no matter how big their portfolio - to truly understand every suggestion they're given before acting.
Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.
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