We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
Interpretation
Life is about navigating the superficial aspects while maintaining depth and grace.
Ralph Waldo Emersonβs quote suggests that our existence is largely focused on the layers that we present to the world, or the 'surfaces'. The true skill lies in how well we can maneuver through these external appearances, blending authenticity and finesse in our interactions and experiences.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and authenticity.
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?
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
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