When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
Interpretation
Embracing uncertainty and taking risks can lead to unexpected opportunities.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that by letting go of control and allowing things to become chaotic, one can open themselves up to new possibilities and avenues of creativity. It emphasizes the idea that sometimes, the act of surrendering to uncertainty can yield profound and transformative results.
In practice
This quote can inspire someone facing a major life decision to embrace the risk involved.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.
Don't hide yourself in regret, _x000D_ Just love yourself and you're set _x000D_ I'm on the right track, baby _x000D_ I was born this way
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.
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