When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Interpretation
Don't publicly express your worries; instead, work to overcome them quietly.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the importance of managing our emotions privately rather than externalizing them through complaints. By choosing to hide our anxieties and focusing on overcoming them, we can effectively diminish their hold on us and maintain a more positive demeanor in our lives.
In practice
During a team meeting where morale is low, you could say this quote to remind everyone to focus on solutions instead of complaints.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.
In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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