Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Interpretation
Everyone has a unique talent that should guide their life's work.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of recognizing and following one's own natural abilities or talents, suggesting that each individual has a unique path to pursue in life. It indicates that when one aligns their work with their inherent skills, they can explore endless opportunities and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech at an educational institution.
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?
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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