Wisdom from Ralph Waldo Emerson

[theupturnspiral]

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Command all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late,
Our acts our angels are, good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
- Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Not sure if the poem above is an original Emerson (doesn

Comments

[lauraloves]

we had a whole debate in psych about rights vs obligations and what each really means. this one guy had an argument that you only have to right to anthing if you work hard enough for it. but that's also a western view because then you assume that you're going to get adequate payment for your work and that's not necessarily true across cultures. some people work themselves to the bone and only get paid pennies and on the opposite end, some people get paid bizillions of dollars for being able to play a game, sing a song or act in a movie. it truly is about opportunities and it's a real shame that they're not equal everywhere.