If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Interpretation
Embracing the good without questioning leads to abundance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that by accepting the good things that come our way, without overanalyzing or questioning their origin, we invite more positivity and abundance into our lives. It highlights a mindset of gratitude and openness, encouraging us to focus on the positive aspects of our experiences.
In practice
A motivational speaker uses this quote to inspire an audience to focus on the positive aspects of life.
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?
Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.
The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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