"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." (Emerson, "Self-Reliance").
This quotation makes me think about a time in everyone's life when they have a revelation. They realize that they should be happy and make the most of what they have in their life, because they realize envy is ignorance. A man should not envy things because he really does not know what it is like to have those things and that those things will not make him happy. Also it is showing that every person should know that material things will not make them happy. Also, imitation is suicide because you should try to be an individual. One must be themselves because the world is a scary place and if people are not true to themselves than they are going to be unhappy. They will lose site of what is really important. This quote speaks to the very threads of my soul. It is gorgeous and makes me think that our lives are more important than some make them out to be. A life of conformity will be a sad one according to this quote. The universe is full of good if you embrace it and live the way you should-as an individual. It also says that one cannot grow until he plants his corn in a plot of ground in which he makes for himself. To me, this means that one must first have a base to build their life and personality on. Therefore, you must first figure out who you are and then you must grow and keep adding to your personality.
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