Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Interpretation
A person's life goal serves as their source of strength and survival.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of having a significant purpose or dream in life. It suggests that pursuing one's passions and goals can provide the motivation and resilience needed to navigate life's challenges, much like a life preserver that keeps a person afloat in difficult waters.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams.
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?
Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.
As soon as someone I donβt respect tells me I canβt do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
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