The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
Interpretation
True fortune comes from finding joy in our own efforts and self-reliance.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the power of self-reliance and joy in our endeavors. When a person takes initiative and approaches life with a positive attitude, they not only attract opportunities and recognition but also earn the respect and admiration of others. The message is clear: embracing our own capabilities and finding happiness within ourselves can lead to success and fulfillment.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
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?
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.
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