When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
Interpretation
In difficult times, hope and beauty can emerge.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that in our most challenging moments, we can find hope, guidance, and inspiration, much like stars that shine brighter in the darkest of nights. It emphasizes the idea that adversity and darkness often serve as a backdrop for the most illuminating and beautiful experiences in life.
In practice
In a speech about perseverance during tough times, one might say this quote to inspire the audience.
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?
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
Exploration by real people inspires us.
You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.
Tell your story with your whole heart.
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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