Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Interpretation
Appreciate your current situation as it could be worse.
This quote by Plutarch encourages individuals to cultivate a sense of contentment and acceptance regarding their circumstances. By recognizing that situations can always be less favorable, one can foster gratitude and relief for the present state of affairs, ultimately promoting a positive mindset for dealing with life's challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire college graduates.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
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