Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna FerberRead
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the unique perspective of an individual who sees beauty and value in the ordinary.
Edna Ferber's quote emphasizes how a person's perception can transform mundane objects into something precious and beautiful. The woman described sees cabbages not merely as vegetables but as gemstones, illustrating that one's outlook on life can wield a powerful influence, making them resilient to life's challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding beauty in everyday life.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.
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