Every natural action is graceful.
Interpretation
Natural actions are inherently beautiful and flowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that when individuals act in accordance with their true nature, their movements and behaviors possess an innate elegance and grace. This observation reflects a broader philosophical idea that authenticity leads to beauty, encouraging people to embrace their natural instincts and express themselves freely.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a yoga class to emphasize the beauty of natural movements.
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?
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.
A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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