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?
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
I believe in order that I may understand.
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