As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Interpretation
As we age, our inner beauty and character become more significant than our physical appearance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote expresses the idea that with age, the focus shifts from external beauty to internal qualities such as wisdom, kindness, and character. It suggests that true beauty is found within and that as we mature, our experiences and the depth of our personality become what defines us, rather than our outward appearance that may fade over time.
In practice
You might use this quote during a speech at a retirement party to emphasize the value of life experiences.
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?
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most _x000D_ we can hope for is excellence.
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