A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Interpretation
Our thoughts shape who we are and influence our lives.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the powerful role that our thoughts play in defining our identity and experiences. It suggests that our daily preoccupations and mental focus ultimately shape our character and life trajectory, implying that cultivating positive and meaningful thoughts can lead to a fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement.
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?
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.
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