Hands make the world each day.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of human effort and creativity in shaping our daily lives.
Pablo Neruda's quote reflects the idea that our actions and the work of our hands are fundamental in creating and transforming the world around us. Each day, through our labor and contributions, we not only build our personal lives but also influence the broader society, underscoring the profound impact of human agency on the world.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about the value of hard work.
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.β - Verb.
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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