In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea of vitality and energy in youth versus the limitations of aging.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that in the morning of life, which symbolizes youth and vitality, a person is full of energy and engages with the world in a more holistic manner. As one ages, represented by the evening, the physical abilities may decline, leading a person to function more merely through their legs, emphasizing the loss of a more dynamic engagement with life.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion about the stages of life.
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?
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, Tβlan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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