What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
Interpretation
Immortality is meaningless if one cannot make good use of their time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of effectively utilizing the time we have. It suggests that even the gift of immortality would be of little value to someone who fails to appreciate and make the most of the present moment, underscoring the significance of mindfulness and intentional living in our lives.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a motivational speech to highlight the importance of time management.
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?
I live on Earth at present, and I donβt know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing β a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process β an integral function of the universe.
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.
If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.