[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
Interpretation
Embrace each new day as an opportunity to let go of past troubles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of viewing each new day as a fresh start, free from the burdens of past mistakes and negativity. He encourages individuals to approach life with optimism and readiness, recognizing that each day brings new possibilities and experiences that should not be overshadowed by earlier disappointments.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage personal growth.
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?
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
Slow but steady wins the race.
When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it.
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