Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man lives in a world of meaning.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.