People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
Interpretation
Destiny plays a role in how people connect, suggesting that encounters happen for a reason and at the right time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that the individuals meant to come together in life will inevitably cross paths, seemingly by coincidence, at the most opportune time. This speaks to the idea of fate and the belief that there is a larger plan at work in the relationships and connections we form throughout our lives. It emphasizes the significance of timing and the serendipity inherent in meaningful encounters.
In practice
During a motivational speech about fate and connections.
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?
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
My rule is, if you want to build something that does all things for all people, it's not going to work real well.
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