Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Interpretation
Trusting your instincts is vital, even without logical reasoning.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of following one's gut feelings or intuitions, even when there is no rational explanation to justify them. It suggests that our instincts can guide us to make important decisions in life, and that believing in ourselves is crucial, regardless of the external judgments or lack of logical support we might face.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference on personal development.
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?
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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