The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that patience and the act of waiting are endorsed by the fundamental truths of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of patience in life, suggesting that the very nature of the universe supports the practice of waiting. In a fast-paced world, waiting allows individuals to align themselves with deeper truths and insights that may not be immediately visible, encouraging a reflective approach to decision-making and lifeβs challenges.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience and perseverance.
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?
Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
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