It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Interpretation
Quality of life is more important than the quantity of years lived.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that the significance of one's life should be measured by the experiences and depth of those experiences rather than merely the number of years one spends living. It suggests that engaging deeply with life, forming meaningful relationships, and pursuing profound experiences lead to a more fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
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?
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.
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