I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
Interpretation
Embrace youthfulness throughout life regardless of age.
In this quote, Pablo Casals emphasizes the idea that age does not necessarily define one's spirit or enthusiasm for life. He encourages maintaining a youthful perspective and vitality at any stage in life, suggesting that a lively attitude is essential for happiness and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one could say this quote to inspire the audience to maintain their youthful energy.
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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