The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
Interpretation
Just because many people experience illness doesn't mean we should ignore the concept of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing health, even in a world filled with sickness. It suggests that our perception of health should not be overshadowed by the prevalence of illness among the populace, encouraging us to maintain hope and strive for well-being regardless of the circumstances around us.
In practice
Using this quote in a health seminar to inspire attendees about maintaining a positive outlook on 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?
Donβt get caught up in hopes of what youβll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.
I believe in order that I may understand.
Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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