He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Interpretation
True richness comes from making the most of each day without being burdened by worry.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that true wealth is not measured by material possessions but by the ability to fully seize and enjoy each day. It suggests that allowing oneself to be consumed by worry and anxiety robs an individual of their time and peace, ultimately hindering their richness in life experiences.
In practice
During a motivational speech on managing stress, you could use this quote to illustrate the importance of mindfulness.
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?
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You donβt have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
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