Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
Interpretation
Awareness can make challenges feel more difficult than ignorance.
This quote by Toni Morrison reflects the idea that once we gain awareness or knowledge of a difficult situation, the weight of that knowledge can heighten our struggles and emotional burden. Ignorance may shield us from hardship, but understanding the reality of our circumstances often brings its own set of challenges, making it harder to cope.
In practice
During a motivational speech about facing life's challenges.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
At 11, I could say βI am sodiumβ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.' Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.
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