Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Interpretation
Youth holds the responsibility for shaping a prosperous future through their actions and choices.
This quote by Benjamin Disraeli emphasizes the critical role of youth in determining the future prosperity of society. The term 'trustee' suggests an entrusted responsibility, indicating that the younger generation's innovations, values, and decisions will ultimately influence not just their own lives, but the well-being and prosperity of future generations.
In practice
This quote can inspire young leaders at a conference about community development.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.
That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.
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