Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Interpretation
Cherish and utilize your free time wisely, as it holds great potential.
This quote emphasizes the importance of how we choose to spend our spare moments. Ralph Waldo Emerson compares spare time to uncut diamonds that, if neglected, remain worthless. However, if we invest time in meaningful activities, those moments can transform into valuable experiences that enhance our lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about time management, this quote highlights the importance of seizing every moment.
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?
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.