Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
Walter AnnenbergRead
You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
Interpretation
True satisfaction comes from helping others.
Walter Annenberg emphasizes the importance of contribution to the well-being of others as a fundamental source of personal fulfillment. The quote suggests that a meaningful life is one where our actions benefit others, indicating that our own happiness is intertwined with the happiness of those around us.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding purpose in life.
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
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