Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
Interpretation
Make the most of your time and focus on your personal goals before it's too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the brevity of life and the importance of purposeful living. He urges individuals to focus on their own aspirations and objectives, suggesting that one should take action and not delay in pursuing what truly matters to them before time runs out.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
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?
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.
One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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