What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Interpretation
Our desires are within reach if we pursue them; avoiding our fears only causes them to persist.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that what we actively search for in life can be attained, while the things we avoid or run away from will continue to linger and affect us. It encourages individuals to confront their challenges and desires, as facing them will lead to fulfillment and resolution, whereas evading them only prolongs their existence in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about facing fears and pursuing dreams.
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?
Let the voice of the people be heard!
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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