There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Interpretation
Emotional wounds from past injuries can be hard to overcome.
This quote expresses the idea that emotional injuries or grievances from the past linger long after the initial harm has been done. It highlights the difficulty of moving on from pain, as unresolved feelings can haunt one's life, much like a ghost that cannot be laid to rest.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming past trauma.
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.
I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
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