Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
Franz WerfelRead
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
Interpretation
Timeliness is crucial in life; opportunities can be fleeting.
This quote emphasizes the importance of seizing the moment, highlighting that there is often only a slim window of time between acting on an opportunity and missing it. It suggests that awareness of timing in our decisions is essential for success and fulfillment.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage timely actions in business.
Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't. I don't even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much more I want to discover.
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
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