If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Interpretation
Embracing the good without questioning leads to abundance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that by accepting the good things that come our way, without overanalyzing or questioning their origin, we invite more positivity and abundance into our lives. It highlights a mindset of gratitude and openness, encouraging us to focus on the positive aspects of our experiences.
In practice
A motivational speaker uses this quote to inspire an audience to focus on the positive aspects of life.
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?
You should employ your little grey cells.
Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"
A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4).
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
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