Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Interpretation
Health reflects our level of wisdom and is associated with a joyful and noble spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that true health goes beyond mere physical well-being; it embodies wisdom and a cheerful disposition. A person in good health exhibits an open, noble attitude that signifies their understanding of life and its complexities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wellness seminar to emphasize the connection between mental and physical health.
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?
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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