What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
Interpretation
The quote expresses gratitude towards individuals who positively impact our lives.
In this quote, Maxim Gorky conveys a sense of admiration for those who inspire and uplift us. He suggests that meeting such a person is like finding someone worthy of respect and gratitude, as their very existence contributes to the betterment of the world. The appreciation for life and longevity reflects a deep recognition of one's positive contributions to others and society.
In practice
In a speech acknowledging a mentor's impact on your career.
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.
We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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