None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
We must have infinite faith in each other.
Interpretation
Trust and belief in each other's capabilities are essential for strong connections.
Henry David Thoreau's quote emphasizes the importance of having unwavering confidence in one another. In relationships, whether personal or communal, this infinite faith fosters understanding, support, and collaboration, encouraging individuals to uplift each other in their endeavors and challenges.
In practice
In a team meeting to encourage collaboration.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
That grand old poem called Winter
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.
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