None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Interpretation
Personal intuition and individuality are key to achieving excellence.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of listening to oneβs inner voice or intuition when pursuing excellence. It suggests that true accomplishment comes from a deep, personal understanding and connection to oneβs own unique aspirations, rather than simply following external pressures or mainstream expectations.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference 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?
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.
When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
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