When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Interpretation
Even in difficult times, there is beauty and hope to be found.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that in moments of despair or darkness, people often find clarity, inspiration, or guidance. The metaphor of seeing stars in the dark symbolizes the notion that challenges can reveal insights or positive aspects that may have been overlooked in brighter circumstances.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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?
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,_x000D_ The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,_x000D_ The more I give the winds my pinions free,_x000D_ Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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