On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma GoldmanRead
Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that salvation and hope come from actively pursuing a better future.
Emma Goldman's quote emphasizes the importance of taking proactive steps towards a brighter future as a means of achieving salvation. It suggests that rather than waiting for change to happen, one must march forward with energy and determination, seeking clarity and improvement in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech aimed at young leaders.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.
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