Matshona DhliwayoThe strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.
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The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them. This is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. It’s about how people are often blinded by their emotions and fail to see past what they are facing in life. The strong overcome their opponents by being smarter or stronger than them.
The mighty crush them by being bigger or more powerful than them. The shrewd outwit them by being cleverer than them. And, the cowardly hide from them by not facing these problems in the first place or having muscle to do what is necessary to overcome these obstacles.
But, if you are intelligent enough to understand these problems with clarity, you can transcend them in spite of all this.
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