Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Interpretation
Amidst life's struggles and challenges, there is always a glimmer of hope or beauty.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects the idea that even in the darkest and most unpleasant situations, there is an underlying sense of positivity and beauty that can be found. It suggests that life, with all its difficulties, contains moments of joy and inspiration that can uplift the human spirit, reminding us to look beyond the surface of hardships to discover the 'song' of life that resonates within us all.
In practice
In a speech about perseverance during tough times.
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?
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment. That devotion to true principle in our individual lives, in our homes and families, and in all places that we meet and influence other people-that devotion is what God is ultimately requesting of us.
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.
A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.
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