Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
Bernard BaruchRead
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Interpretation
Living well involves embracing and adapting to challenges rather than trying to avoid them.
This quote by Bernard Baruch suggests that the true essence of life is not about being free from difficulties but rather about learning and evolving through them. It highlights the importance of resilience and personal growth in the face of adversity, encouraging individuals to confront their troubles with a mindset geared toward development and improvement.
In practice
During a motivational talk about overcoming challenges in life.
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.
...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didnβt care.
When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.
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