The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
Interpretation
Just because many people experience illness doesn't mean we should ignore the concept of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing health, even in a world filled with sickness. It suggests that our perception of health should not be overshadowed by the prevalence of illness among the populace, encouraging us to maintain hope and strive for well-being regardless of the circumstances around us.
In practice
Using this quote in a health seminar to inspire attendees about maintaining a positive outlook on health.
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?
I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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