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?
You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
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