[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
Interpretation
Embrace each new day as an opportunity to let go of past troubles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of viewing each new day as a fresh start, free from the burdens of past mistakes and negativity. He encourages individuals to approach life with optimism and readiness, recognizing that each day brings new possibilities and experiences that should not be overshadowed by earlier disappointments.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage personal growth.
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?
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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