There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T. S. EliotRead
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
Interpretation
Youth feels fatigue after starting tasks, while age feels it before beginning them.
This quote by T. S. Eliot suggests a profound perspective on the nature of energy and motivation across different ages. Young people often dive into tasks with enthusiasm but may feel worn out once they've completed them, whereas older individuals may experience apprehension or fatigue even at the thought of starting something new, reflecting their experiences and perhaps a more cautious approach to lifeβs actions and challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life's challenges at any age.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
For I have known them all already, known them allβ Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.
God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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