It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Interpretation
Quality of life is more important than the quantity of years lived.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that the significance of one's life should be measured by the experiences and depth of those experiences rather than merely the number of years one spends living. It suggests that engaging deeply with life, forming meaningful relationships, and pursuing profound experiences lead to a more fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
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?
If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
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