[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?
Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.
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