You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
Interpretation
Honor is an intrinsic quality that cannot be taken from you by others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and honor, suggesting that external circumstances, such as losing material possessions or employment, do not define one's true worth. It reminds us that while we may face adversity at the hands of others, our sense of honor and dignity remains within us and is ultimately our own to uphold.
In practice
During a speech on character development at a local school.
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.
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