If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Interpretation
Living authentically allows us to perceive reality clearly.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that authenticity in our lives leads to clear and true perceptions of the world around us. When we embrace our true selves and live genuinely, we are better equipped to see things as they really are, free from the distortions created by pretense or societal expectations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and authenticity.
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?
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.
No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
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