We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Interpretation
We should learn from our past while maintaining a youthful and vibrant spirit.
This quote emphasizes the importance of harnessing the knowledge and insights gained from experience in order to build a better future. However, it warns against becoming stagnant or losing enthusiasm, suggesting that a society should embrace change and innovation while leveraging its historical wisdom.
In practice
During a community meeting discussing local development, this quote can inspire attendees to value their experiences while encouraging fresh ideas.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
The President is the peoples lobbyist.
Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'
There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are two processes going on: you are watching television, and something within you is witnessing the process of watching television. Witnessing is deeper, far deeper. It is not equivalent to watching. Watching is superficial. So remember that meditation is witnessing.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
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