Men who never get carried away should be.
Interpretation
It's important to embrace passion and enthusiasm in life.
Malcolm Forbes suggests that those who remain too grounded and never allow themselves to be swept away by emotions or experiences may miss out on the richness of life. Getting carried away can lead to discovering deep joys and inspirations that routine thinking might overlook.
In practice
This quote could be used during a motivational speech about embracing new experiences.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
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