All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Interpretation
Life is a series of experiments, and making more of them leads to improvement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of experimentation in life, suggesting that every experience contributes to our knowledge and growth. By engaging in various experiments, whether in thought, action, or exploration, we refine our understanding and enhance our capabilities, ultimately leading to a richer and more fulfilling existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to take risks in their careers.
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?
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.
Faith is the yes of the heart.
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