Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
Ivan TurgenevRead
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Interpretation
Waiting for perfect conditions can prevent us from taking action.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking initiative and starting tasks even when circumstances aren't ideal. It suggests that if we constantly wait for everything to be perfectly aligned, we may never take the first step towards our goals or projects, thus missing opportunities for growth and achievement.
In practice
Encouraging a friend who is hesitant about starting a new project due to fear of failure.
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
I believe that the only way to truly be fulfilled, the only way to truly be the person that God created us to be, is to live in our passion, is to do what we're passionate about. It changes everything about us.
God helps him who strives hard.
When I thought about it, I said "if you quit now, how you gonna explain to any other kid coming up that if something don't go their way, they're supposed to get up and go hard at it next time?" You can't if you quit.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
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