Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
Interpretation
People who have not acted in life lack the legitimacy to criticize those who have taken minor actions.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the notion that individuals who have not made any significant efforts or contributions in their own lives do not possess the moral authority to pass judgment on the actions or achievements of others, no matter how small. It underlines the importance of recognizing the efforts of all individuals, as every action counts, and highlights the hypocrisy of critics who have not engaged in similar endeavors themselves.
In practice
During a team meeting, to encourage understanding among peers.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
There are times when you should listen to what people say about you, but also a lot of times you just don't need to listen so much. Don't worry so much and just go. Unless you're, like, in danger, and then don't. And then run, girl.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young
It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.
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