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.
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.
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