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.
Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission.
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.
It is by Godβs mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.
Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you
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