There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.
Interpretation
Life is filled with both pleasure and pain, and we must navigate through challenges individually.
The quote emphasizes that while life offers abundant opportunities for joy and pleasure, every person must confront their own trials and hardships alone. It suggests that despite the collective enjoyment that may surround us, the experiences of pain and struggle are personal journeys that each individual must face in order to grow and progress.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience after hardship.
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; _x000D_ Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, _x000D_ And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. _x000D_ Be not afraid _x000D_ To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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