Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.
Interpretation
Life encompasses more than just the procedures and routines we follow; it transcends and overwhelms them.
Dale Carnegie's quote emphasizes that the essence of life is vast and profound, surpassing the mundane processes and routines that may govern our everyday existence. It suggests that while processes and tasks are important, they should not overshadow the richness and depth of life itself, indicating that life is an experience filled with meaning that goes beyond mere actions and routines.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of looking beyond daily tasks.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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