While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
Interpretation
It's important to create a lasting legacy that reflects good values and intentions.
This quote emphasizes the significance of not just leaving a mark in the world, but ensuring that the impact we have is positive and meaningful. It suggests that the direction and intention behind our actions are what truly matter in shaping our legacy, rather than simply the fact that we were here.
In practice
This quote could be used in a graduation speech to inspire students about the importance of making a positive impact.
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
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