People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
Interpretation
Our perceptions are shaped by our preparedness to notice certain things, especially the positive aspects of life.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the significance of mindset in shaping our experiences. It suggests that individuals tend to perceive only what they are ready to acknowledge, and if one actively seeks out positivity and gratitude, they will discover these qualities in abundance around them. The importance of being open-minded and appreciative is highlighted as a pathway to a more fulfilling life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about positive thinking, you could use this quote to encourage the audience to adopt a grateful mindset.
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 write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.
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