The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that patience and the act of waiting are endorsed by the fundamental truths of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of patience in life, suggesting that the very nature of the universe supports the practice of waiting. In a fast-paced world, waiting allows individuals to align themselves with deeper truths and insights that may not be immediately visible, encouraging a reflective approach to decision-making and lifeβs challenges.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience and perseverance.
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?
The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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