You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
Interpretation
Honor is an intrinsic quality that cannot be taken from you by others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and honor, suggesting that external circumstances, such as losing material possessions or employment, do not define one's true worth. It reminds us that while we may face adversity at the hands of others, our sense of honor and dignity remains within us and is ultimately our own to uphold.
In practice
During a speech on character development at a local school.
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.
I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.
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