Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Interpretation
Embrace and engage with the world around you, experiencing both its joys and struggles.
In this quote, Emerson encourages individuals to actively participate in life by loving the world around them. He emphasizes the importance of engaging with both the happiness and challenges that come with being part of a community, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from connecting with others and recognizing the shared human experience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about community service, this quote can inspire action.
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?
Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.
His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.
So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
Iβm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
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